Stephen Leslie Simmonds is an Australian Paralympic swimmer and disabled waterskiing world champion.

At the age of twelve, he was the first student with a disability to compete at the Australian Primary Schools Championships.

[1] He did not win a medal at the 1990 World Championships and Games for the Disabled in Assen, Netherlands.

He won 25 medals at the Paralympics He had an Australian Institute of Sport Athletes with a Disability scholarship from 1993 to 1995 and in 1997.

[6] His daughters both water ski with Tayla Simmonds in 2011 being the youngest ever skier to contest the Moomba Championships at Melbourne.