Edward Elbridge Salisbury (April 6, 1814 – February 5, 1901) was an American Sanskritist and Arabist.

[1] He graduated from Yale University in 1832 and was appointed Professor of Arabic and Sanskrit there in 1841.

The position of Salisbury was the only University Chair of Sanskrit in America till 1854, when a separate "Professorship of Sanskrit and kindred languages" was created with William Dwight Whitney as its first incumbent.

[2][3] Salisbury also served as the President of the American Oriental Society from 1863 to 1866, and again from 1873 to 1880.

[1] In 1866, Salisbury published an English translation of the Kitab al-Majmu, an Arabic work allegedly used in the Alawite religion.