Shimek, Szymek, or Simek are different spellings of a Czech family name. The name is derived from Czech and Croatian Šimek, or Polish Szymek. The name comes from a hypocorism of the name Simon (Szymon in Polish and Czech). Shimek is the Anglicized spelling.
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- Bohumil Shimek (1861–1937), American naturalist and conservationist
- Liz Moeggenberg née Shimek (1984), American professional basketball player
- Mazarine Shimek, a character from the 2003 novel The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
- Shimek State Forest, Iowa, U.S.
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- 14098 Šimek, an asteroid
- Artie Simek (1916–1975), an American calligrapher best known as a letterer for Marvel Comics
- Frank Simek (1984), an American association football (soccer) player
- Juraj Šimek (1987), a Swiss professional ice-hockey player
- Martin Šimek, a Dutch television personality and brother to Miloslav Šimek
- Miloslav Šimek (1940–2004), a Czech comedian
- Miroslav Šimek (1959), a Czech slalom canoer
- Péter Simek (1980), a Hungarian football (soccer) player
- Radim Šimek, Czech ice hockey player
- Rudolf Simek (1954), an Austrian philologian and historian
See also edit
- Schimek (disambiguation), a Germanized version of the same name
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