Edmund Chilmead (1610 – 19 February 1654) was an English writer and translator, who produced both scholarly works and hack-writing.
He became a chaplain (canon) of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1632, from where he was ejected in 1648.
Chilmead died on 19 February 1653-4 in London, and was buried in the churchyard of St Botolph's Aldersgate.
He produced a catalogue of the Greek manuscripts in the Bodleian Library.
He was a clerical defender of astrology,[7] in his translation of Gaffarel.