Sir Pita Simogun BEM (c. 1900 – 11 April 1987) was a Papua New Guinean policeman, farmer and politician.

[2] During World War II he was part of the group of Wewak residents led by Bert Jones that walked to Wau.

[2] In 1942 he began service as a coastwatcher and was dropped off near Cape Orford by an American submarine in April 1943.

[1][2] He also oversaw the building of a new coastal road, later named after him as the Sir Pita Simogun Highway, and established But-Boiken Local Government Council in 1956,[1] serving as its president.

[1] In 1967, he joined an oil palm settlement scheme, taking the lease of several plots of land in West New Britain, with most of the population of Urip following him.