Petar Šimunović (19 February 1933 – 5 August 2014) was a Croatian linguist, onomastician, dialectologist, lexicographer, and academic member of HAZU.

He was considered as the most prominent Croatian onomastician (since the second half of the 20th century[1]), and contributed also in the field of dialectology (particularly about Chakavian dialect).

[1][2] As the recipient of the Humboldt Foundation scholarship he worked at the Slavic Department of the University of Cologne between 1972 and 1974 under Reinhold Olesch mentorship, and lectured between 1994 and 1998.

[1][3][6] In 2020, was published monography U početku bijaše ime, including works from international scientific conference "Tragovima onomastičkih istraživanja Petra Šimunovića" held in July 2019.

[3] Collaborated in the writing of Grundsystem und Terminologie der slavischen Onomastik (1983), Słowiańska onomastyka – encyklopedia (2002).