Johann Rudolf Suter (29 March 1766, Zofingen – 24 February 1827, Bern) was a Swiss physician, botanist and philologist.
He studied natural history at the University of Göttingen, obtaining his PhD in 1787.
[1] From 1798 to 1801, he was a member of the council for the Helvetian Republic, and afterwards was a practicing physician and private scientist in Bern (1801–1804) and Zofingen (1811–1820).
In 1820 he was appointed a professor of philosophy and Greek at the Academy of Bern.
[3] The plant genus Sutera (family Scrophulariaceae) was named in his honor by German botanist Albrecht Wilhelm Roth (1807).