Simon bar Giora
Shimon bar Giora (also Simeon bar Giora, aram. שמעון בר גיורא ) was a leader of the Zealots who defended Jerusalem AD 70 against the Romans, according to Flavius Josephus. He was arrested by Titus, the future Roman emperor Vespasian and son and a year later (71 ) in Rome, executed under the emperor Vespasian. Josephus describes him as a marauding in Judea robbers, bandits and murderers before he took over the defense of the curtain wall around Jerusalem. After the conquest of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple, he hid in a cave under the Temple Mount, where he is said to have tried to dig a tunnel through the siege. The company failed because the rock was too hard. Bar Giora had just happened to the Roman legionaries after him and his companions had run out of food and water. He was transported with 700 other prisoners via Egypt by ship to Rome and paraded there in a triumph of the Roman population.
Joseph Atwill claims in his book The Messiah puzzles that it could be at Shimon bar Giora and Simon Peter are one and the same person.