Her portrait appears on the Australian fifty dollar note, a polymer banknote that was first issued in October 1995. In 2019 the release of the latest $50 note caused a sensation when it was discovered that the word 'responsibility' in Edith Cowan's speech was incorrectly spelt, missing the last 'i'. She is also commemorated in the naming of Edith Cowan University and the federal Division of Cowan, and by the Edith Dircksey Cowan Memorial in Kings Park.