Mircea Șimon (born 22 January 1954) is a retired Romanian heavyweight boxer.

He took up boxing in 1971 at Dinamo Bucharest, coached by Constantin Nour, and won a silver medal at the 1976 Olympics,[2] losing to Teófilo Stevenson in the final.

Șimon also won four national senior titles and two bronze medals at the European Amateur Boxing Championships.

[citation needed] In 1978 he fled to the United States, where in 1978–1979 he fought 14 bouts as a professional with a record of 12 wins and two draws.

[3] He later returned to Romania and coached Marian and Dorel Simion.