Sir Howard Elphinstone, 1st Baronet (1773–1846) was a Major-General in the Peninsular War. He was created 1st Baronet of Elphinstone, of Sowerby in the County of Cumberland, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 25 May 1816.
He was the youngest son of John Elphinstone, a Captain in the Royal Navy and Admiral in the Russian Navy. The second Baronet was a Whig Member of Parliament for Hastings and Lewes.