Sir Richard Saltonstall (c. 1521 – 17 March 1601) was an English merchant and politician who served as the Lord Mayor of London in 1599.

He was the second son of Agnes and Gilbert Saltonstall, a cloth merchant of Halifax, Yorkshire who owned lands in Hipperholme.

Upon his death on 17 March 1601 at his estate in South Ockendon, his heir was his eldest surviving son Richard Salstonstall.

There is a fine Elizabethan monument to Sir Richard by his wife Suzanna, located on the north wall of the chapel.

Through his daughter Hester, he was grandfather of Gen. Sir Thomas Myddelton (a general in the English Civil War).