Friedrich Kutter (1 October 1834 – 7 March 1891) was a German physician and ornithologist who was among the early adopters of evolutionary thinking in oology, the study of birds' eggs.
He went to school in Sorau and studied medicine at the Friedrich Wilhelms Institute in Berlin, where he graduated in 1856.
He then worked as a regimental physician in the 1st Cavalry (Uhlan) regiment stationed at various times in Berlin, Głogów, Poznań, Prudnik and Kassel, with active wartime service across Europe during the Austro-Prussian and Franco-Prussian wars and received several war medals including an Iron Cross, and an Order of the Red Eagle.
He was among the early members of the German Ornithological Society which produced the journal Naumannia from 1851 under the leadership of the pastor August Carl Eduard Baldamus.
Another journal, the Journal for Ornithology was begun by Jean Cabanis in 1853 in Berlin and Kutter became a contributor to this during his medical studies years in Berlin and became acquainted with Bernard Altum, Alfred Hausmann, Karl Bolle, Theobald Krüper, and Carl Vangerow.