Gerard Fowke (June 25, 1855 – March 5, 1933) was an American archeologist and geologist best known for his studies of Native American mounds. Born Charles Mitchell Smith in Charleston Bottom, Mason County, Kentucky, near Maysville, his career in science began in 1883 when he studied geological formations associated with the Wabash, Arkansas, and Missouri Rivers. In 1887, he legally changed his name to Gerard Fowke, naming himself after a prominent American ancestor of his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Fowke.