Eduardas Mieželaitis (3 October 1919 – 6 June 1997) was a Lithuanian Soviet poet, translator, essayist and public figure.
In 1923 he moved with his family to Kaunas and studied at the Faculty of Law of the Vytautas Magnus University from 1939.
Mieželaitis was a member of the underground Komsomol of the Communist Party of Lithuania from 1935 and published his first poems in the same year.
He was appointed chief editor of the Komjaunimo tiesa (the Lithuanian language edition of Komsomolskaya Pravda).
After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he was evacuated to Nikolsk in the Penza Oblast where he worked at the Krasnyj Gigant factory.