David Fitzsimons (23 April 1950 – 7 September 2008)[1] was a former Australian Olympic athlete who competed in middle distance events and civil engineer.

Inducted into the South Australian Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000.

[2] Fitzsimons worked for 30 years at the Transport Department of the South Australian Government.

He was the supervising engineer of a road bridge which replaced a level crossing on Park Terrace on what became the city ring route of Adelaide.

[2] His greatest international achievement was placing third over 5000 metres at the inaugural IAAF World Cup in 1977.