Edward Wakefield may refer to:
Politics Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796–1862), English statesman and colonial theorist Edward Wakefield (died 1602), MP for Kingston upon Hull Jerningham Wakefield (1820–1879), New Zealand politician and author, son of Edward Gibbon Wakefield Edward Wakefield (New Zealand politician) (1845–1924), New Zealand politician and journalist, grandson of Edward Wakefield (1774–1854) Sir Edward Wakefield, 1st Baronet (1903–1969), British civil servant and Conservative Party politician
Other Edward Wakefield (statistician) (1774–1854), English philanthropist and statistician Edward Thomas Wakefield (1821–1896), English ironmaster Ned Wakefield, a fictional character in the Sweet Valley High book series