| Rudresh Gowda | |
| Birth Name: | Rudresh Gowda |
| Birth Date: | 1955 10, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Belur, Karnataka, India |
| Death Place: | Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| Office: | Member of Lok Sabha |
| Term Start: | 15 May 1996 |
| Term End: | 4 December 1997 |
| Constituency: | Hassan |
| Successor: | H. D. Deve Gowda |
| Office2: | Member of the Legislative Assembly |
| Term Start2: | 22 May 2008 |
| Term End2: | 23 March 2018 |
| Constituency2: | Belur |
| Successor2: | K. S. Lingesha |
| Party: | |
| Children: | 2 |
| Education: | LLB |
Rudresh Gowda (16 October 1955[1] – 24 March 2018) was an Indian politician.
Gowda trained to be a lawyer.[2] He joined the Janata Party in 1985 and was elected to the Hassan District Council until 1996.[3] Gowda sat in the 11th Lok Sabha, representing Janata Dal and the Janata Party in between 1996 and 1997.[3] [4] He left Janata Dal (Secular) in 2004 for the Indian National Congress.[4] Gowda won election to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly as a representative of Belur in 2008 and 2013.[4] He suffered a heart attack on 23 March 2018 and died of multiple organ failure the next day at a hospital in Bangalore, aged 62.[5] [6]