Rabbi Edward Nathan Calisch (1865 – 1946), born in Toledo, Ohio, was a Reform movement rabbi in the United States. He studied at the University of Cincinnati and was ordained after graduating from Hebrew Union College. After accepting a pulpit in Peoria, Illinois in 1887, he came in 1891, to Congregation Beth Ahabah in Richmond, Virginia. In 1908, Calisch earned a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. In 1915 Calisch gave a speech in support of women's suffrage from the steps of the state capitol. He was an executive member of the American Jewish Committee, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Joint Distribution Committee and the Virginia War History Commission.