Antonio de Salinas Varona y Castañeda (1810–1874) was a wealthy Peruvian landowner and conservative politician.

[1] His father, Anselmo Manuel de Salinas Varona y Céspedes, born in Espinosa de Los Monteros (Spain), was a coronel of the Spanish Army and bought the estates of the Augustinians in the Huaura Valley of the Sayán District, 100 miles north of Lima, including the important Andahuasi Estate.

He married Paula de Cossío y Centurión and lived both in his Quipico Estate and his House in Lima.

As an important landowner, he led the meeting of the main landowners of the country for an indemnity after slavery abolition and ruled, next to Manuel Pardo y Lavalle the commission who promoted the Rural Police Force and the immigration of Asians to replace former slaves as a workforce during Ramón Castilla government.

[3] Mayor of Lima in 1866 and 1868, he organized the first Fire brigade during the Spanish attack to the Callao Harbour on May 2, 1866.