Edward Fitzball (20 March 1793 – 27 October 1873) was a popular English playwright, who specialised in melodrama.

He produced some dramatic pieces at the local theatre, and eventually the marked success of his Innkeeper of Abbeville, or The Ostler and the Robber (1820), together with the friendly acceptance of one of his pieces at the Surrey Theatre by Thomas John Dibdin, induced him to settle in London.

He also produced a seminal play on The Flying Dutchman and wrote the libretto for Edward Loder's Raymond and Agnes.

His greatest triumph in melodrama was perhaps Jonathan Bradford, or Murder at the Roadside Inn (Surrey Theatre, 12 June 1833).

He was at one time stock dramatist and reader of plays at Covent Garden, and afterwards at Drury Lane.