Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons (* 7 February 1901, Pitermaritzburg – † 1 July 1975, Pretoria), South African herpetologist.

• Son of Frederick William FitzSimons.
• Transvaal Museum (1924–1966)

Taxon names authored

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• 36 taxon names authored by Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• FitzSimons, V. 1930. Descriptions of new South African Reptilia and Batrachia, with distribution records of allied species in the Transvaal Museum Collection. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 14: 20–48. Reference page. 
• FitzSimons, V. 1933. Descriptions of five new lizards from the Transvaal and Southern Rhodesia. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 15: 273–280. Reference page. 
• FitzSimons, V.F.M. 1935. Notes on a collection of reptiles and amphibians made in the Southern Kalahari, Bushmanland, and Great and Little Namaqualand. Annals of the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria 17: 519-550.
• FitzSimons, V. 1943. The lizards of South Africa. Transvaal Museum Memoirs 1: 1–528. Reference page. 
• FitzSimons, V. 1958. A new Cordylus from Gorongoza, Mocambique. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 14: 351–353. Reference page.