Edward E. Simbalist (5 September 1943 – 12 March 2005) was a Canadian role-playing game designer and high school teacher. He is best known for co-designing Chivalry & Sorcery and Space Opera.

Edward E. Simbalist and Wilf K. Backhaus brought a prototype of Chivalry & Sorcery to Gen Con IX in 1976 with hopes to sell it to TSR. After witnessing Gary Gygax berating a staff member, Simbalist decided not to approach him about the game. Instead, at the same convention, the pair met Scott Bizar of Fantasy Games Unlimited, who published the game over the following year. A few years later Bizar commissioned Simbalist and Phil McGregor to design a science-fiction role-playing game, which was published in 1980 as Space Opera. Simbalist supervised both of these role-playing game lines until FGU ceased to release new products. The last edition of one of his games to appear during his lifetime was Chivalry & Sorcery Light in 2001.

Simbalist lived in Edmonton and taught at Edith Rodgers junior high school.^{[citation needed]}