Edmund Arrowsmith, SJ (c. 1585 – 28 August 1628) was one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales of the Catholic Church.

The main source of information on Arrowsmith is a contemporary account written by an eyewitness and published a short time after his death.

He was baptised Brian, but always used his confirmation name of Edmund, after an uncle who trained English priests in France.

On one occasion, as a child, he was left shivering in his night-clothes by the pursuivants, who carried his parents off to Lancaster jail; he and his three siblings were cared for by neighbours.

[2] In 1605, at the age of twenty, Arrowsmith left England and went to the English College, Douai, to study for the priesthood.

[2] Arrowsmith was released when King James I of England ordered an amnesty for all arrested priests, in furtherance of negotiations to arrange a Spanish marriage for his son Prince Charles.

[6] St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School is located in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester, England.