Edward Ernest Green (20 February 1861 – 2 July 1949) was a Ceylon-born English mycologist and entomologist who specialised in the scale-insects, Coccidae.

Edward was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka to Jane Mary née Akers (d. 1863) and John Philip Green who owned coffee and tea plantations in Ceylon.

[3][4] After schooling at Charterhouse, Edward returned to the family plantations at Pundaluoya in 1880 and became familiar with the ravages of Hemileia vastatrix and Coccus viridis which were to cause the end of coffee cultivation in Ceylon.

He moved to Camberley where he lived in Way's End and continued his research on scale insects of which he had made a large collection.

His specimen collections were donated to the Natural History Museum (BMNH) after he feared damage from bombing during the Second World War.

[7] Green's major writings include The Coccidae of Ceylon, that was published by Dulau & Co. in London (five volumes 1896–1922),[9] as well as over 200 other papers.