Edmund Joseph Cooray, CMG, OBE (November 3, 1915 - January 1, 2016) was a Ceylonese Senator and one time Minister of Justice in the Second Dudley Senanayake cabinet.

[1] He attended the 1960 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in London on behalf of the Dominion of Ceylon.

[2] He having graduated with a BA from the University of London, he qualified as a barrister and established his legal practice as an advocate.

He was a lecturer for digest and voet at the Ceylon Law College.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1952 Birthday Honours and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1955 Birthday Honours for his services to the co-operative movement.