Richard Cornell (1625—1693) was an English Quaker ironmaster and resident of Long Island who is generally considered the first European settler on the Rockaway Peninsula in the present-day Borough of Queens, New York City. Cornell purchased the Rockaway land from another Englishman, Captain John Palmer, in 1687, and settled there in 1690. His grandfather was Thomas Cornell. The homestead of the Cornells by the beachfront later the site of the Marine Pavilion. The Cornell Family Cemetery on Gateway Boulevard in Far Rockaway has been designated as a New York City Landmark.