James Sutherland

James Sutherland was a Scottish Pre-Linnaean botanist who served as the first Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh from 1676 to 1705. He was an administrator of the Physical Garden (currently known as the Royal Botanic Garden), and his innovative publication, Hortus Medicus Edinburgensis (1683) placed Scotland at the leading position of botany in Europe. He was also the office holder of Her Majesty's Botanist.

When citing a botanical name, James Sutherland is abbreviated as Sutherl.