Edmund William Barker DUNU SPMJ (1 December 1920 – 12 April 2001) was a Singaporean politician and lawyer who authored the Proclamation of Singapore.

Barker was of Portuguese, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Scottish and Irish descent and was third in a family of five children.

A talented sportsperson, Barker was selected to represent Singapore as a member of the national hockey team while he was still a schoolboy.

[4] During World War II, Barker travelled to Thailand as part of a medical health unit which was sent to look after Allied POWs working on the Death Railway.

After the war, Barker was awarded the Queen's Scholarship in 1946 to study at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, where he read law at St Catharine's College in 1948.

Barker died on 12 April 2001 at 12:40 pm at the National University Hospital, after two months of intensive care following an emergency colon surgery in February 2001.