Edward S. Porter (October 19, 1848 – June 13, 1902) was a physician in Louisville, Kentucky.

He was a physician for the Louisville city sanitary force, the Orphan's home, at the nearby insane asylum, and at Simmons College of Kentucky.

He attended Lincoln University in Oxford, Pennsylvania, for seven years, finally getting a Bachelor of Arts in 1873.

[1] He was secretary of the Board of Commissioners for the Central Asylum for the Insane until two years before his death, living in nearby Anchorage, Kentucky.

He had been ill for a number of years prior and had spent some time in California and Las Vegas, Nevada, to recuperate before his death.