Edith Evelyn Nicholls Stainsby (1892–1978) was an American physician and medical researcher. Born on September 29, 1892, she pursued a career in medicine during a period of significant development in clinical practice and scientific research in the United States.
Stainsby passed away on March 12, 1978. Although specific details of her research focus, publications, and medical practice are not preserved in the source material, her career represents the contributions of women in the mid-twentieth-century American medical and scientific communities.