Dorota Elżbieta Simonides (born 1928 Janów) - Polish folklorist and politician. Professor emerita of the Faculty of Philology, Opole University.
During the People's Republic of Poland period she joined a small non-Marxist 'satellite party', the Democratic Party (SD), and was a member of parliament of the Sejm of People's Republic of Poland in 1980–1985. She was one of only a few MPs who did not vote in favour of martial law in 1981 and the criminalisation of Solidarity in 1984.