Simone is the French feminine of Simon — from the Hebrew *Shimon* ("he has heard"). **Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)** — **French existentialist philosopher whose *The Second Sex* (*Le Deuxième Sexe*, 1949) — "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" — founded modern feminist philosophy**. Partner of Jean-Paul Sartre for 51 years. **Simone Weil (1909-1943)** — French philosopher and mystic; T.S. Eliot called her "a kind of saint." **Simone Biles (born 1997)** — American gymnast; **most decorated gymnast in World Championship history (30 medals, 23 gold), four Olympic golds**, and the only gymnast with four eponymous skills in the FIG Code of Points.
Subject of Bair's *Simone de Beauvoir* (1990) and the *Courage to Soar* (2016) Simone Biles autobiography.
Simone reduces to seven — the number of Second Sex philosopher.