Endō Kinsuke (遠藤 謹助, March 31, 1836 – September 13, 1893) was a Japanese statesman in the early Meiji period.

Endō was born to a samurai family in Hagi, Chōshū Domain (present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture.

He was selected by the domain to be a member of the Chōshū Five who were smuggled out of Japan in defiance of the Tokugawa bakufu's policy of national seclusion to Great Britain in 1863.

Chōshū was desperate to acquire better knowledge of the western nations in order to strengthen the domain in its struggle to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.

He is remembered less for his efforts in establishing a unified national currency and more for his policy that the grounds of the Mint should be open for all the people of Osaka in spring, when the sakura trees planted there come into bloom.