Adam David Rutherford (born January 1975) is a British geneticist and science communicatior. He was an audio-visual content editor for the journal Nature for a decade, and is a frequent contributor to the newspaper The Guardian. He formerly hosted the BBC Radio 4 programmes Inside Science and (with Hannah Fry) The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry; has produced several science documentaries; and has published books related to genetics and the origin of life.
He is an honorary senior research associate in the division of biosciences at University College London.