Shimek is the Anglicized spelling of the Slavic surname Šimek. The name comes from a hypocorism of the name Šimon. Simek is a surname that may be either Anglicized spelling of Šimek, or directly a Slavic hypocorism of the name Simon. Notable people with the surname include:

Shimek

• Bohumil Shimek (1861–1937), American naturalist and conservationist

• Liz Moeggenberg née Shimek (born 1984), American basketball player

Simek

• Artie Simek (1916–1975), American calligrapher best known as a letterer for Marvel Comics

• Frank Simek (born 1984), American association football player

• Péter Simek (born 1980), Hungarian association football player

• Rudolf Simek (born 1954), Austrian philologian and historian

See also

• Schimek, Germanized version of the name

• 14098 Šimek, an asteroid

• Shimek State Forest, Iowa, U.S.