Peter Alan Simpson (born 1942) is an academic, writer, literary critic, and former New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
[1] From 1955 to 1959, he was educated at Nelson College, where he was a prefect and member of the school's 1st XV rugby union team in his final year.
[1][3] He represented the electorate of Lyttelton in Parliament from 1987 to 1990, when he was defeated by Gail McIntosh, one of a number of losses contributing to the fall of the Fourth Labour Government.
Before entering parliament he was chairman of the Lyttelton electorate committee of the Labour Party.
[10] In 2020, Simpson was conferred an honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Canterbury.