Simon E. Fisher (born 1970) is a British geneticist and neuroscientist who has pioneered research into the genetic basis of human speech and language.

[4][7] Fisher was an undergraduate student at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he read Natural Sciences.

He was a postgraduate student at St. Catherine's College, Oxford[2] where he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 1995 for research on positional cloning of the gene responsible for Dent's disease supervised by Ian W. Craig [Wikidata].

[2] Following his DPhil, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Anthony Monaco's laboratory at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics in Oxford.

[8][9][10] His subsequent research has used FOXP2 and other language-related genes[11] as molecular windows into neural pathways critical for language.