Carleton is a given name.
Those bearing it include:
- Carleton Watkins (1829âÂÂ1916), American photographer
- Carleton Clement (1896âÂÂ1917), Canadian fighter pilot
- Carleton Bartlett Gibson (1863âÂÂ1927)
- Carleton Coon (musician) (1898âÂÂ1932), American musician of Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra
- Carleton Wiggins (1848âÂÂ1932), American painter
- Carleton Tufnell (1856âÂÂ1940), English cricketer
- Carleton Ellis (1876âÂÂ1941), American chemist
- Carleton Winslow (1876âÂÂ1946), American architect
- (Ernest) Carleton Bass (born 1876), Irish-born bullfighter in U.S.
- Carleton Rea (1861âÂÂ1946), English botanist
- Carleton Lewis Brownson (1866âÂÂ1948), American classical-languages scholar and academic administrator
- George Carleton Lacy (1888âÂÂ1951), American missionary in China
- Carleton O'Brien (1903âÂÂ1952), American racketeer
- Carleton Roy Ball (1873âÂÂ1958), American botanist
- Carleton Bruns Joeckel (1886âÂÂ1960), American librarian and scholar
- Carleton F. Burke (died 1962), American horse breeder and racer, namesake of Carleton F. Burke Handicap
- Carleton Raymond Mabley (1878âÂÂ1963), American automotive entrepreneur
- Carleton Kemp Allen (1887âÂÂ1966), Australian-born British academic
- Carleton Washburne (1889âÂÂ1968), American educator
- Carleton Kendrake, pseudonym of Erle Stanley Gardner (1889âÂÂ1970), American lawyer and novelist
- Carleton H. Wright (1892âÂÂ1970), American naval officer
- Carleton Garretson Young (1907âÂÂ1971), American actor
- Carleton J. King (1904âÂÂ1977), American politician
- Carleton Lamont MacMillan (1903âÂÂ1978), Canadian physician and politician
- Carleton Beals (1893âÂÂ1979), American journalist
- Carleton Harris (1909âÂÂ1980), Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
- Carleton S. Coon (1904âÂÂ1981), American anthropologist
- Robert Carleton Smith (1908âÂÂ1984), American arts administrator
- Carleton G. Howe (1898âÂÂ1993), American orchardist and politician
- Carleton Young (1905âÂÂ1994), American actor
- Carleton Putnam (1901âÂÂ1998), American entrepreneur
- Carleton Weir Elliott (1928âÂÂ2003), Canadian musician
- Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923âÂÂ2008), American medical researcher
- Carleton Naiche-Palmer (1947âÂÂ2010), American native-tribe politician
- Carleton Opgaard (1929âÂÂ2014), American academic administrator
- Carleton Mabee (1914âÂÂ2014), American writer
- Carleton Upham Carpenter, Jr. (1926âÂÂ2022), American performer
- Carleton Perry (born 1931), American politician
- Carleton "Carty" S. Finkbeiner (born 1939), American politician
- Carleton H. Sheets (born 1939), American real-estate entrepreneur
- Carleton D. Powell (born 1939), American jurist
- Carleton Oats (born 1942), American football player
- Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina (born 1954), American business executive and political candidate
- Carleton Leonard (born 1958), English footballer
- Carleton Scott (born 1988), American basketball player
- Carleton Olegario Máximo, nominal author of thousands of works reprinted from Wikipedia content
- Carleton E. Carey Sr. (), American politician
See also