Sima () is a Chinese family name.
Prominent people with family name 司馬
- Sima Rangju or Rang Ju , strategist during the Spring and Autumn Period and regarded as the author of Sima Fa ("Sima's Art of War")
- Sima Qian, historian in Western Han Dynasty and author of Records of the Grand Historian
- Sima Xiangru , a minor official in Western Han Dynasty but better known for his poetic skills, Chinese wine (jiu) business and controversial marriage to a widow Zhuo Wenjun after both eloped.
- Sima Yi, renowned strategist during the Three Kingdoms, ultimate adversary of Zhuge Liang in Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the revered progenitor of the Jin Dynasty (265-420).
- Sima Shi , son of Sima Yi
- Sima Zhao, son of Sima Yi and younger brother of Sima Shi, de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Wei and the origin of a Chinese proverb.
- Sima Yan, also known as the Emperor Wu of Jin China, was a son of Sima Zhao. He took the throne of the Kingdom of Wei, proclaimed the Jin Dynasty and unified China.
- another Sima Yi, son of Emperor Wu of Jin China and Prince of Changsha among the Eight Princes
- the ruling family of Jin Dynasty (265-420).
- Sima Guang, historian and stateman during the Song Dynasty (960-1279), known for his monumental historical work Zizhi Tongjian and rivalry against contemporary Wang Anshi.
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Sima is also a traditional Finnish seasonal sweet mead.
