Bernhard Eunom Philippi (September 19, 1811, in Charlottenburg – c.August 1852) was a German naturalist, explorer and colonization agent for Chile.

In 1818 the family moved to Switzerland, where Rudolph and his brother Bernhard entered the school of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi.

Establishing relations with civil authorities, he encouraged the idea of German colonization in Chile.

Upon his return to Chile in 1851, Philippi was admonished by minister Antonio Varas for sending too many Protestant settlers; as punishment Philippi was appointed governor of the Magallanes Region instead of being appointed leader of the future Llanquihue settlement as he wished.

[4] In Magallanes he was charged with re-establishing the colony he initially claimed for Chile but had later been destroyed in conflicts with indigenous people.