Edward Austin Kent (February 19, 1854 – April 15, 1912) was a prominent architect in Buffalo, New York.

Returning to the U.S. in 1877, he became junior partner in the Syracuse, New York firm of Silsbee and Kent.

[9] In 1912, he took a two-month vacation to France and Egypt and planned on retiring after returning home.

He decided to delay his trip home so he could travel on the maiden voyage of the new and luxurious ocean liner, the RMS Titanic.

He mingled with the other socialites, and with a writers' group which included Helen Churchill Candee and Archibald Gracie.