Simon Francis Murphy (born 24 February 1962) is a British charity executive and former politician who was a Labour Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1994 to 2004.
At the 1992 United Kingdom general election, he stood unsuccessfully for the Labour Party in Wolverhampton South West.
On leaving the European Parliament he was chief executive and company secretary of Birmingham Forward (a professional services trade association) from 2004 to 2006.
He has served as a member of the Better Regulation Commission 2005–2006, the MG Rover Task Force 2005–2006, as a director of Birmingham Professional Diversity (a not-for-profit employment consultancy), Regional Trade Champion 2003–2004, and as a West Midlands Ambassador 2005–2011.
He then became director of the Birmingham, Coventry and Black Country City Region from 2006 to 2011, now known as the West Midlands Combined Authority.