Eric Walter Powell (6 May 1886 – 17 August 1933) was an English schoolmaster, artist and rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Robert Walter Powell, the first vicar of Holy Innocents Church, and his wife Mary Caroline Hankey.

The 1908 Cambridge crew made up a boat in the eights which won the bronze medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

The world perhaps knew him best as an oarsman, the winner of the Diamond Sculls, but there are others who think of his distinction in the Flying Corps and yet more to whom his wonderful talent as an artist made a stronger appeal.

Of what he did for drawing at Eton, it is impossible to speak too highly; and his success as one of the most popular and best beloved of house masters was so remarkable that it might have been grudged to anyone but himPowell's sister Ellen married fellow Olympian Harold Barker.