Samuel Fowler (October 30, 1779 – February 20, 1844) was a doctor, state legislator, and member of the United States House of Representatives from northwestern New Jersey.

As the owner of zinc and iron mines and an iron works at Franklin, New Jersey, he became a noted mineralogist who discovered several varieties of rare minerals (chiefly various ores of zinc).

[1] He attended the Montgomery Academy and subsequently graduated from Pennsylvania Medical College.

[1] Fowler began to practice medicine in 1800 in Hamburg, New Jersey,[1] when he was 21 years old.

[2] After zinc ore was found in the area, Fowler made a serious effort to develop it.