Edward Mikołaj Babiuch (['edvard ˈbabʲux] ⓘ; 28 December 1927 – 1 February 2021[2]) was a Polish Communist political figure.

In the years 1963-1965 he was a deputy head of the Organizational Department of the Central Committee, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Życie Partii" (Party Life).

At the call of the Central Committee plenum in December 1980, he also resigned from his parliamentary mandate.

In July 1981, he was stripped of his two highest state decorations, the Order of the Builders of People's Poland and the Order of the Banner of Labour, 1st Class, by the State Council of the Polish People's Republic.

[6][7] He was the longest-lived former Polish prime minister, improving on the record of Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.