Brigadier General Edward Lyman Munson (December 27, 1868 – July 7, 1947) was a senior officer of the United States Army Medical Corps.

In 1889 he received a new assignment to Fort Adams, Rhode Island, but was shortly afterwards deployed with the 5th Artillery, Fifth Army Corps in Chickamauga, Georgia.

Many soldiers had already been infected with Typhoid fever while being mobilized in Chickamauga; in Cuba, Munson was in charged with preparing the ships that would carry back the casualties.

After his return he became editor of the journal Military Medicine and was with the US troops on the Mexican border during the Pancho Villa Expedition in 1916.

Edward Munson was ordered to Japan to command an American medical relief unit after the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923.