Bryant J. Salter (born January 22, 1950) is a former American football safety in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins, Baltimore Colts, and the Miami Dolphins. He played college football at the University of Pittsburgh and was drafted in the fifth round of the 1971 NFL draft. He went on to join the United States Foreign Service and eventually served as a consul in Mexico and chargé d’affaires to Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Kitts and Nevis from January 1991 until March 1994. He would also receive a master's degree from the Harvard Kennedy School.