Edwin Wainwright (August 1908 – 22 January 1998) was a British Labour Party politician. Wainwright was educated at Darfield council school and Wombwell and Barnsley Technical College. He was a miner and a branch official and national executive member of the National Union of Mineworkers. For twenty years he served as a councillor on Wombwell Urban District Council. Wainwright was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dearne Valley from 1959 to 1983, when the seat was abolished in boundary changes.