Emil William Pickering DSO TD DL JP (3 June 1882 – 14 March 1942) was a British industrialist, army officer and politician. Born in Dewsbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Pickering was educated at Dewsbury Grammar School and Tettenhall College. He subsequently entered business as a woollen manufacturer in partnership with John Greaves. The Pickering Greaves business, based at Ravensthorpe Mills, continued until 1926. In 1941, at the height of World War II he was appointed a Deputy Regional Commissioner for the Northern Region.