Edward Gibbon Wakefield (20 March 1796 – 16 May 1862) is a British politician, the driving force behind much of the early colonization of South Australia, and later New Zealand.

Wakefield, who in 1816 marries Eliza Pattle (1799–1820), is the eldest son of Edward Wakefield (1774–1854) and Susanna Crash (1767–1816).

He is mentioned and criticized in Chapter 33 of Karl Marx's Das Kapital (Volume 1).

He is imprisoned for 3 years in 1827 for his role as a primary protagonist in the Shrigley abduction.