Syme
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Syme (also Symes, Simes, and see Sime) is a surname, and may refer to:
- Sir Colin Syme (1903–1986), Australian medical administrator and innovator
- David Syme (1827–1908), a Scottish-Australian newspaper proprietor of The Age
- David Syme (pianist) (born 1949), an American pianist.
- Ebenezer Syme(1826–1860), a Scottish-Australian journalist, proprietor and manager of The Age
- George Adlington Syme (1859–1929), an Australian surgeon.
- Hugh Syme, a Canadian musician and a Juno Award-winning graphic artist
- James Syme (1799–1870), a pioneering Scottish surgeon.
- Jennifer Syme (1972–2001) an American actress and production assistan
- Ronald Syme, (1903–1989), a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. Long associated with Oxford University, he is widely regarded as the 20th century's greatest historian of ancient Rome
- Fiction
- Syme is also a minor character in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- Gabriel Syme is the main character in G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday.
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- Bob Symes, stage name of inventor Robert Alexander Baron Schutzmann von Schutzmansdorff.
- Brad Symes (born 1985), Australian rules football midfielder
- Cyril Symes (born 1943), former Canadian politician
- Devina Symes (born 1943), Poet
- Michael Symes, English footballer
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[edit] See also
- Syme, place name: see present-day Symi
- Syme (mythology), a Greek mythological figure
- Battle of Syme
- Syme (1984)
- SymE toxin, regulated by SymR RNA
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