Edward Owen Greening (17 August 1836 – 5 March 1923) was a British co-operative and radical activist.

Born in Warrington, Greening grew up in Bedford, Lancashire and then Manchester, as his father's wire-drawing business moved location.

He was educated at a Quaker school on Mount Street in Manchester, but left when he was thirteen years old, to become an apprentice wire-drawer.

[2] Greening stood in Halifax at the 1868 UK general election, with the backing of a local committee of radical workers.

[2] By the autumn of 1917 he had changed his mind and at the party's emergency conference he said that "after the great vote at Swansea he recognised that it was necessary that the experiment should be made in direct representation".