Rodrigo Bernal González (born June 6, 1959 in Medellín) is a Colombian botanist who specialises in the palm family.

Bernal was a faculty member at the Institute of Natural Sciences, National University of Colombia until 2007.

He was general curator of the National Colombian Herbarium (1986-1987), and editor of the scientific journal Caldasia (1989-1991, 1997-1999).

Since 2007 Bernal has been involved in building up the National Collection of Colombian Palms, an initiative to gather living specimens of all native Colombian palms at the Quindío Botanic Garden, in Calarcá.

In 1996 he received the Sciences Award of the Fundación Alejandro Angel Escobar [2] for In 1996 for the Field guide to American palms (co-authored by Andrew Henderson & Gloria Galeano Garcés).