Sims

Sims or sims may refer to:

Last name

• Joey Sims All together beast
• Ashton Sims, Australian rugby league footballer
• Charles Sims (painter), British painter
• Christopher A. Sims, American economist
• George Robert Sims, British journalist and author
• Howard Sims ("Sandman" Sims), American vaudeville dancer
• Jeremy Sims, Australian actor
• J. Marion Sims, American gynaecological surgeon
• Joan Sims, British actress
• John Sims (taxonomist)
• John Sims (footballer), English former professional footballer
• John Joseph Sims, English recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Michael Sims, American non-fiction writer
• Thomas Sims, subject of a notorious American fugitive slave case
• Tom Sims, American snowboarding pioneer
• Zoot Sims, American jazz tenor saxophonist
• Molly Sims, American actress and swimsuit model
• Andrew Sims, MC and member of the Doomtree hip-hop collective
• William Sims, American admiral after whom several ships were named:
  • The destroyer USS Sims (DD-409), served in World War II, sunk by the Japanese, 1942
  • The destroyer escort USS Sims (DE-153), commissioned 1943, decommissioned 1946
  • The destroyer escort USS W. S. Sims (DE-1059) (later FF-1059), commissioned 1970, decommissioned 1991
  • The transport vessel USS Admiral W. S. Sims (AP-127)

Computer related

• The Sims, a life simulation computer and video game series by designer Will Wright (see List of The Sims games)
  • The Sims, the first game in The Sims series
  • The Sims 2, the second game in The Sims series
  • The Sims 3, the third game in The Sims series
• Sim (Maxis Sim games), the name of the humanoid characters that populate Maxis Sim games
• Student information system, computer software for managing student records
• Schools Information Management System by Capita
• SIMS (video game company), a Japanese video game publisher and developer

Geography

• Sims, Illinois, a village in the United States
• Sims Township, Grant County, Indiana, a township in the United States
  • Sims, Indiana, an unincorporated community in that township
• Sims Township, Michigan

Other

• Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies, a business school in India
• Secondary ion mass spectrometry, an elemental surface analysis technique
• Sims Snowboards
• Sims (novel), a book by F. Paul Wilson about genetically enhanced chimpanzees used as a labor force
• Services Institute of Medical Sciences, a medical school attached to Services Hospital in Lahore
• Subscriber Identity Module, removable smart card ICC
• Sims Metal Management, a scrap metal collector
• Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, a Canadian research institute

See also

• Syms (disambiguation)