Edward Washburn Hopkins (September 8, 1857 - 1932), American Sanskrit scholar, was born in Northampton, Massachusetts.

He graduated at Columbia University in 1878, studied at Leipzig, where he received the degree of Ph.D. in 1881, was an instructor at Columbia in 1881 1885, and professor at Bryn Mawr in 1885-1895, and became professor of Sanskrit and comparative philology in Yale University in 1895.

He became secretary of the American Oriental Society and editor of its Journal, to which he contributed many valuable papers, especially on numerical and temporal categories in early Sanskrit literature. He wrote:

• Caste in Ancient India (1881)
• Manu's Lawbook (1884)
• Religions of India (1895)
• The Great Epic of India (1901)
• India Old and New (1901)