Simon David Manton White, FRS, is a British-German astrophysicist. He was one of directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics before his retirement in late 2019. The Navarro–Frenk–White profile to describe dark matter is named after him.
- Occupation
- astronomer, astrophysicist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, Germany
- Born
- September 30, 1951
- Website
- http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~swhite