Simón Sarasola (1871[1]–Dec/12/1947[2]) was a Spanish meteorologist and Jesuit priest.
He was president of the Belen Jesuit Preparatory School at Havana, and director of the National Meteorological Observatory.
After the opening of Panama Canal (1914[3]), he founded the Montserrat Observatory in Cienfuegos, southern Cuba.
[4][5] He moved to Bogotá (Colombia) in 1921, where participated in the creation of the weather observatory of Colegio Nacional de San Bartolomé in Bogotá[4] and the reorganization of a national meteorological service.
[7][8] He co-founded the Geophysical Institute of the Colombian Andes with J. E. Ramírez in 1941.