Ephraim Henry Coombe (26 August 1858 – 5 April 1917) was a South Australian newspaper editor and politician.

From 1888 he acted as correspondent for the South Australian Register and from 1890 to 1914 was editor of the Gawler Bunyip, and to a large extent responsible for its popularity.

He was a speedy and accurate shorthand writer, and as such appointed an official stenographer at the Federation conference at Adelaide in 1897.

[4] Coombe was president of the Barossa Political Reform League in the 1880s[4] and an advocate of the Hare-Spence system of proportional representation.

He was Commissioner of Crown Lands in the Peake Government, and chairman of the Royal Commission to enquire into the handling and marketing of wheat.

[8] Coombe defended residents of the Barossa Valley during World War I who were suspected of disloyalty and were persecuted because of their German heritage.

He opposed conscription and the "intimidation of male voters in the referendum of 1917"[9] He collapsed during a public meeting at Port Adelaide in support of this campaign at the Semaphore and died of a cerebral haemorrhage a week later without recovering consciousness.

[14] Thomas Coombe (21 June 1861 – 21 March 1935) storekeeper of Willaston and chairman of the Mudla Wirra South Council, was his brother.