Sir Edward John Russell OBE FRS[1] (31 October 1872 – 12 July 1965) was a British soil chemist, agriculture scientist, and director of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1912 to 1943.

From 1907 to 1912 he was a soil chemist at Rothamsted supported by a Goldsmith's Company's endowment of £10,000.

Russell worked on soil chemistry and plant nutrition appointing R. A. Fisher in 1919.

In the 1918 New Year Honours Russell was awarded an OBE for his wartime work as Technical Adviser in the Government's Food Production Department.

[7] He married Elnor Oldham of Manchester in 1903 and they had six children of whom one son, Walter, became a soil physicist at Rothamsted.