Edvard Valenta (22 January 1901 in Prostějov – 21 August 1978 in Prague) was a Czech journalist and writer.

After finishing secondary school in 1918 he started to study at a technical university, but soon left to work as a journalist.

In 1920 Valenta joined the Brno office of the newspaper Lidové noviny.

Among his most important works are recordings of the adventures of Jan Welzl (together with colleague Bedřich Golombek), a biography of the African explorer Emil Holub, and the psychological novel Jdi za zeleným světlem.

The cruelty of World War II occupation is described and at the end the main character of the novel is shot by retreating German soldiers.