Simon Wolfe Rosendale (June 23, 1842 – April 22, 1937) was an American lawyer and politician.

[citation needed] As a Democrat, he was New York State Attorney General from 1892 to 1893, elected in 1891 but defeated for re-election in 1893.

In 1895, he published The Involution of Wampum as Currency: the Story Told By the Colonial Ordinances of New Netherland, 1641-1662.

Governor Theodore Roosevelt appointed him in 1899 to the State Board of Charities, a post he held for 18 years.

He was for a number of years a member of the executive board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.