| Wilfrid Simmonds | |
| Senator for Queensland | |
| Term Start: | 22 February 1950 |
| Term End: | 19 March 1951 |
| Birth Date: | 1889 12, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Cairns, Queensland, Australia |
| Death Place: | Babinda, Queensland, Australia |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Party: | Country |
| Occupation: | Sugar grower |
Wilfrid Mylchreest Simmonds, (19 December 1889 – 2 January 1967) was an Australian butcher, auctioneer, sugar farmer and politician, briefly a Senator for Queensland.
Born in Cairns, Queensland, he was educated at Mulgrave before becoming a sugar cane grower. After serving in the military 1917–1919, he sat on Mulgrave Shire Council.[1] He was an unsuccessful Country Party candidate for the division of Kennedy at the 1940[2] and 1943 elections.[3] At the , the first to use a single transferable vote under a proportional voting system, he was fourth on the coalition senate ticket and was elected to a short term seat. His term began on 22 February 1950 and was not due to end until 30 June 1952, however a double dissolution was called and his term ended on 19 March 1951. The coalition was defending 7 seats, having won all three seats at the, but felt that its prospects of winning 6 of the ten seats at the were best if it was only running 6 candidates. As the most junior senator he was dropped from the coalition senate ticket.[4] Simmonds was appointed a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in 1961.[5]
He died in Babinda in 1967, aged 77.