Carleton (given name)

Carleton is a given name.

Those bearing it include:

• Carleton Watkins (1829–1916), American photographer
• Carleton Clement (1896–1917), Canadian fighter pilot
• Carleton Bartlett Gibson (1863–1927)
• Carleton Coon (musician) (1898–1932), American musician of Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra
• Carleton Wiggins (1848–1932), American painter
• Carleton Tufnell (1856–1940), English cricketer
• Carleton Ellis (1876–1941), American chemist
• Carleton Winslow (1876–1946), American architect
• (Ernest) Carleton Bass (born 1876), Irish-born bullfighter in U.S.
• Carleton Rea (1861–1946), English botanist
• Carleton Lewis Brownson (1866–1948), American classical-languages scholar and academic administrator
• George Carleton Lacy (1888–1951), American missionary in China
• Carleton O'Brien (1903–1952), American racketeer
• Carleton Roy Ball (1873–1958), American botanist
• Carleton Bruns Joeckel (1886–1960), American librarian and scholar
• Carleton F. Burke (died 1962), American horse breeder and racer, namesake of Carleton F. Burke Handicap
• Carleton Raymond Mabley (1878–1963), American automotive entrepreneur
• Carleton Kemp Allen (1887–1966), Australian-born British academic
• Carleton Washburne (1889–1968), American educator
• Carleton Kendrake, pseudonym of Erle Stanley Gardner (1889–1970), American lawyer and novelist
• Carleton H. Wright (1892–1970), American naval officer
• Carleton Garretson Young (1907–1971), American actor
• Carleton J. King (1904–1977), American politician
• Carleton Lamont MacMillan (1903–1978), Canadian physician and politician
• Carleton Beals (1893–1979), American journalist
• Carleton Harris (1909–1980), Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court
• Carleton S. Coon (1904–1981), American anthropologist
• Robert Carleton Smith (1908–1984), American arts administrator
• Carleton G. Howe (1898–1993), American orchardist and politician
• Carleton Young (1905–1994), American actor
• Carleton Putnam (1901–1998), American entrepreneur
• Carleton Weir Elliott (1928–2003), Canadian musician
• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008), American medical researcher
• Carleton Naiche-Palmer (1947–2010), American native-tribe politician
• Carleton Opgaard (1929–2014), American academic administrator
• Carleton Mabee (1914–2014), American writer
• Carleton Upham Carpenter, Jr. (1926–2022), 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. (fl. c. 2010), American politician