Richard Charles Hardisty (3 March 1831 – 15 October 1889) was a Hudson's Bay Company official at Edmonton and a politician in the North-West Territories, Canada.

Richard Hardisty’s father was a Hudson’s Bay Company chief trader, born in London, England.

His mother, Margaret Sutherland, was of First Nations and Scottish heritage.

[2] in the 1887 Canadian federal election he ran as an Independent Conservative in Alberta (Provisional District).

He died on 15 October 1889, two weeks after being thrown from a horse-drawn buggy.