Richard Charles Hardisty (3 March 1831 – 18 October 1889) was a Hudson's Bay Company official at Edmonton and a politician in the Northwest Territories, Canada. He married Eliza McDougall on 21 September 1866 while he was a Hudson's Bay Company employee. He ran as an Independent Conservative in the 1887 Canadian federal election and finished a close second in the Alberta (Provisional District). He lost to Donald Watson Davis. The village of Hardisty, Alberta, is named in his honour, as is Mount Hardisty in Jasper National Park.