Edmund Francis Bourke (Irish: Éamonn Proinséas De Búrca; 27 January 1852 – 30 August 1926) was an Irish-South African politician and businessman who served as a member of the Transvaal Legislative Council and the first mayor of Pretoria.

After learning accounting from Messrs. A. Fass & Co. Bourke left Natal for the Transvaal in 1877 and accepted the management of Mr. Henry Russell's business (one of the oldest in Pretoria), in January of that year.

Bourke became good friends with many prominent South African politicians and businessmen of his time including George Jesse Heys and President Paul Kruger with whom he had a close friendship.

Bourke was director of numerous smaller companies and is largely interested in farming and other agricultural pursuits.

Throughout the stirring days of Barberton's beginnings, and the initial mining in the district of Witwatersrand, he remained steadily at work in Pretoria, although none of his local ventures proved really successful.

In his early days Bourke was captain of the Maritzburg Rugby team, and took a hearty interest in the game throughout his life.

In 1880 Eddie Bourke was elected to both the Transvaal Volksraad and to Pretoria's City Council where he first held a seat in the Water & Sanitation Commission.

His house, Barton keep, unfortunately deteriorated in the years following his death before being purchased from the Bourke Trust by the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in June 1945.