Syme

Syme (also Symes, Simes) is a surname, and may refer to:

• Colin Syme (1903–1986), an 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
• Don Syme, an Australian computer scientist and creator of the F# programming language
• Ebenezer Syme (1826–1860), a Scottish-Australian journalist, proprietor and manager of The Age
• Geoffrey Syme (1873-1942), son of David Syme, who succeeded his father as proprietor and owner of The Age
• George Adlington Syme (1859–1929), an Australian surgeon
• Hugh Syme (GC) (1903-1965), a naval officer and bomb disposal operative, and employee of The Age
• Hugh Syme, a Canadian musician and a Juno Award-winning graphic artist
• James Syme (1799–1870), a pioneering Scottish surgeon
• Jason Syme, Scottish rugby league and rugby union footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s
• Jennifer Syme (1972–2001), an American actress and production assistant
• John Syme (1795–1861), a Scottish portrait-painter
• John Thomas Irvine Boswell Syme (1822–1888), a British botanist
• Ronald Syme (1903–1989), a New Zealand-born historian of ancient Rome and classicist
• William Smith Syme (1870-1928) Newfoundland-born laryngologist

Fiction

• Syme (1984), a minor character in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Gabriel Syme, a character in G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday