Edward William Godwin (Bristol, 26 May 1833 – 6 October 1886) is a progressive English architect-designer, who beginshis career working in the strongly polychromatic "Ruskinian Gothic" style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by The Stones of Venice, then moves on to provide designs in the "Anglo-Japanese taste" of the Aesthetic Movement and Whistler's circle in the 1870s.

Godwin's influence can be detected in the Arts and Crafts Movement.

His best known early works include The Guild Hall, Northampton, which is his first notable public commission, and Town Hall, Congleton, as well as restorations and neo-Gothic additions to Dromore Castle, Limerick and Castle Ashby.