| Rutger Kopland | |
| Birth Name: | Rudi van den Hoofdakker |
| Birth Date: | 4 August 1934 |
| Birth Place: | Goor, Overijssel, Netherlands |
| Death Place: | Glimmen, Groningen, Netherlands |
| Occupation: | Poet |
Rutger Kopland (born Rudi van den Hoofdakker) (4 August 1934, Goor – 11 July 2012, Glimmen) was a Dutch poet who gained great popularity for his "accessible, thoughtful style, his mild irony, his sentimentality" and whose collections sold over 200,000 copies.[1]