Edward Michael Ward (5 February 1789 – 12 September 1832) was an Anglo-Irish diplomat. He was the oldest son of Robert Ward and his first wife Sophia Frances Whaley, third daughter of Richard Chapel Whaley. His younger brother was a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy. On 14 September 1815, he married Lady Matilda Stewart, daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, and had by her a daughter and a son. Ward died at Brighton, aged 43, a year after his father and only months after his younger brother Bernard.