Suresh Babu (10 February 1953 - 19 February 2011) is a former Indian long jumper from Kerala. He has held the national title in the long, triple, and high jump events, in addition to the decathlon. He has is one of the few athletes to win medals in two events in successive Asian Games, the bronze in the decathlon in the Teheran Asian Games in 1974 and a gold in the long jump in the Bangkok Asian Games, 1978.

His first fling at the national level -was as a junior at Jalandhar in 1969. Three years later he won the national championship in high jump, a title he was to claim for six more years. Switching from one pit to another, he won the national championship in long jump during the years 1974, 1977 and 1979 and the triple jump in 1974, 1976 and 1978.

Suresh Babu led the Indian athletics team to the 1978 Commonwealth Games at Edmonton in Canada and concentrating on the long jump event fetched a Bronze there. He then went on to pick up the Gold at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok He was the captain of the Indian team for the World Athletics Meet at Montreal in 1979.

Suresh is presently employed as Sports Officer with Kerala Sports Council; Suresh Babu had earlier served as Special Officer, Sports and Games, in the Kerala State Electricity Board. He was a member of the Technical Committee of the All India Electricity Sports Control Board and a coach at the Sports Authority of India (Southern Centre) in Bangalore. He was the State Supervisor of SAI for Kerala and Lakshadweep. He was a recipient of Arjuna Award, 1978–79