Edward Maene (21 April 1852 in Bruges, Belgium – 4 December 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Belgian-American architectural sculptor, woodcarver and cabinetmaker. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he executed work designed by architects such as Wilson Eyre, Willis G. Hale, Cope and Stewardson, Will Price, Horace Wells Sellers, and Milton B. Medary. His oak choir stalls and reredos at the Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania have been described as "the finest examples of hand carved wood in this country."
Maene learned the stone- and wood-carving trade in his native Belgium, and studied in Paris. He immigrated to the United States in 1881, and settled in Philadelphia in 1883. There is evidence to suggest that he worked as a carver for Daniel Pabst, the premier custom-furniture maker in late-19th century Philadelphia. He opened his own workshop at what is now 239 South Lawrence Court, a half-block east of Pabst's workshop at 269 South 5th Street. Within less than a decade his shop employed "from twenty to twenty-five assistants." His nephew, John Maene (1863–1923), apprenticed in his shop in the 1880s, and was hired as foreman for the Rose Valley furniture shop in 1902. Following the 1906 closure of the Rose Valley venture, the nephew returned to the uncle's shop.
Maene executed designs by architect Wilson Eyre, working on residential projects such as the Dr. Henry Genet Taylor House and Office (1884), in Camden, New Jersey; a new Dutch Colonial façade for the Rowley-Pullman House (altered 1886, demolished 1963), at 238 S. 3rd Street, Philadelphia; and the Charles Lang Freer House (1892), in Detroit, Michigan. His shop carved exterior stonework for Eyre's City Trust Building (1888, demolished c.1923), at 927-29 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia; and did work on Eyre's Newcomb Memorial Chapel (1894-95, demolished 1954), at Newcomb College in New Orleans, Louisiana.