Ansel Sterling (February 3, 1782 – November 6, 1853) was a United States representative from Connecticut.
He was the brother of Micah Sterling who was a United States Representative from New York.
He was born in Lyme, Connecticut, where he attended the common schools.
He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and reelected as an Adams-Clay candidate to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825).
After leaving Congress, he resumed legal practice and was the chief justice of the court of common pleas of Litchfield County 1838-1840.