David Frederick Cutler PPLS (born 1939[1]) is an English botanist and plant anatomist.
He was educated at the University of Leeds, BSc (Hons) 1962, and Imperial College London, PhD 1965.
Cutler worked as a plant anatomist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1962.
He retired in 1999 as deputy keeper and head of the Plant Anatomy Section, Jodrell Laboratory, Kew.
[1] He currently holds the positions of honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, visiting professor in botany at the University of Reading and honorary lecturer at Imperial College, London.