Harold Raymond Edwards AM (10 January 1927 – 26 June 2012) was an Australian politician, economist and academic.

In Temora, Edwards joined the Air Corps and gained his private pilot's licence.

[1] Edwards received his PhD from Nuffield College, Oxford—his doctoral thesis, Competition and Monopoly in the British Soap Industry, was published as a book in 1962.

Edwards nominated for preselection, which he won against a large field of 24 candidates including future Prime Minister John Howard.

[1] Edwards was the only person to be on the Coalition front bench during the Labor governments of both Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke, without holding ministerial position during the intervening Liberal government of Malcolm Fraser.