David Simons (born 27 August 1953) is a Scottish novelist and short story writer.
He was educated at Hutchesons' Boys Grammar School and graduated with a law degree from Glasgow University in 1973.
He worked as a lawyer in Edinburgh, a cotton farmer on Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov Ichud in Israel, a charity administrator for the Cyrenians in West London, a university lecturer at Keio University, Japan, and a journalist for multi-national publishing house Informa, before returning to his native Glasgow in 2006 to pursue his career as a writer.