Gerald Teasdale Fowler (1 January 1935 – 1 May 1993), commonly known as Gerry Fowler, was a British Labour Party politician and university academic. Fowler was the son of James A. Fowler (died 1964) of Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, and his wife Alfreda. Fowler was educated at Northampton Grammar School (where he was a friend of Bernard Donoughue), Lincoln College, Oxford, and Frankfurt University. He was a councillor on Oxford City Council 1960–64, branch secretary of the Oxford branch of ASSET and a visiting lecturer at Lancaster University 1964–1966.