Anson Call (May 13, 1810 – August 31, 1890) was a Mormon pioneer and an early colonizer of many communities in Utah Territory and surrounding states, perhaps best remembered in Mormon history for recording Joseph Smith's Rocky Mountain prophecy. He was the father of LDS Mexican colonizer and Mormon bishop and patriarch Anson Bowen Call (1863–1958).

Born at Fletcher, Vermont, Anson Call was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1836. His father Cyril Call (1785–1873) had previously joined the LDS Church in Madison, Ohio. Call initially resisted the preaching of LDS missionaries, but, after reading the Book of Mormon and comparing it to the Bible, was convinced to join the LDS Church. Among the missionaries who taught Call while he resided in Madison were Brigham Young, John P. Greene and Almon Babbitt. Call traveled to Kirtland to be baptized.

Call remained in Kirtland until 1838 when he relocated to Caldwell County, Missouri, settling in the Three Forks of the Grand River Area. After a few months there he relocated to Adam-ondi-Ahman, Missouri. He later returned to the Three Forks area where he was assaulted by the man who had taken over his farm. In February 1839 Call moved to Illinois, first living in the vicinity of Warsaw, Illinois and then in Ramus, Illinois. He moved to Nauvoo, Illinois in 1842.

Anson witnessed, on 8 August 1844 during the Mormon succession crisis, the 'mantle' of the Prophet Joseph Smith fall upon his successor, Brigham Young. He recorded the event and spiritual manifestation in his journal. It had been in 1837 that Anson, who himself later suffered severe mob violence in Missouri, secured the release of the Prophet Joseph from a Kirtland jail by posting a $500 bond. And it was Anson who, at the Prophet's bidding, raced 80 miles to Knoxville on 17 June 1844 to secure by letter the aid of Judge Thomas on behalf of a mob-threatened Nauvoo. When, only a few days after its infamous martyrdom, Carthage Jail was visited by Call, a grieving Anson told its 'gaoler' that he desired that the stained blood upon the floors and doors 'remain as an everlasting testimony against the murderers.'

Call, who would ultimately go on to receive with his four wives Mormonism's sacred Second Anointing ordinance on 5 March 1867, reported that three days after the martyrdom of the Smith brothers, in the dreams of the night he beheld the Prophet Joseph in visional discourse to the Saints, wherein he declared:

Brethren, I have been killed in Carthage jail, and it will not make any difference with you, if you do as you are told. I shall continue to govern and control this kingdom as I have hitherto done. The keys of this kingdom were committed to me. I hold them and shall continue to hold them, worlds without end. I am dead, and I am out of the power of my enemies. I am now where I can do you good. Be no longer troubled. Be faithful, be diligent, do as you are told, and you shall see the salvation of God.

In May 1846 Call sold his farm in Nauvoo, and, along with his first wife, the former Mary Flint, headed west. In 1848, he crossed the plains as a Mormon pioneer. He settled in Bountiful, Utah Territory, where he served as a bishop, beginning in 1850 and established a homestead a half mile north of "Session's Settlement". Later that fall, Call was sent to Parowan, Utah, returning in the spring of 1851 to Bountiful.

That same year, Call led the first company of Latter-day Saints to settle at Fillmore, Utah Territory. While in Fillmore, Call served as the member of the Utah Territorial Legislature from Millard County. In 1854, Call returned to Bountiful where he stayed until 1855 and built a permanent dwelling now known as the Anson Call House which is still standing today. Later in 1855, he founded Call's Fort at Brigham Young's request in what is now Harper Ward, Utah.