Cecil Edwin Henry Bawn, CBE, FRS (6 November 1908 – 19 September 2003) was a British chemist and academic, specialising in chemical kinetics.

He was Grant-Brunner Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (1948–1969) and Brunner Professor of Physical Chemistry (1969–1973) at the University of Liverpool.

On 20 March 1952, Bawn was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society,[3] the United Kingdom's national academy for the sciences.

[4] In the 1956 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition of his work as Grant-Brunner Professor of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry at the University of Liverpool.

[5] Bawn was awarded the Tilden Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1948.