Carleton (surname)

Carleton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alex Carleton (born 1968), American fashion and home-goods designer
• Billie Carleton (1896–1918), British actress
• Bridget Carleton (born 1997), Canadian basketball player
• Charles A. Carleton (1836 – 1897), American Union Civil War era brevet brigadier general
• Christopher Carleton (1749–1787), British Army officer
• Claire Carleton (1913 – 1979), American actress
• Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester (1573–1632), English statesman and diplomat
• Dudley Carleton (diplomat) (1599–1654), nephew of the above, diplomat and Clerk of the Privy Council
• Ezra C. Carleton (1838–1911), U.S. Representative from Michigan
• George Carleton (1529–1590), prosecuted for involvement in the Marprelate controversy
• George Carleton (bishop) (1559–1628), Bishop of Llandaff
• George W. Carleton, publisher, New York, (1832–1901), published the books of Miriam Coles Harris.
• George Carleton (1885 – 1950), American character actor
• Guy Carleton (bishop) (1605–1685), Anglican clergyman
• Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724–1808), governor of Quebec and a general of British troops during the American War of Independence
• Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton (1669–1725), English politician
• Hugh Carleton (1810–1890), New Zealand politician
• Isaac Newton Carleton (1832–1902), founder of Carleton School for Boys in Bradford, Massachusetts
• James Henry Carleton (1814–1873), American Major General
• Jesse Carleton (1862–1921), American golfer
• John Carleton (disambiguation)
• Marie-Helene Carleton, American writer, photographer and filmmaker
• Mark A. Carleton (1866–1925), American botanist and plant pathologist
• Mark T. Carleton (1935–1995), Louisiana historian
• Mary Carleton (1642–1673), Englishwoman who used false identities to marry and defraud a number of men
• Nicholas Carleton (c1570–1630), English composer
• Peter Carleton (1755–1828), U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
• Richard Carleton (1943–2006), Australian journalist
• Robert Louis Carleton (1896–1956), American composer who wrote "Ja-Da!"
• Thomas Carleton (c. 1735 – 1817), first Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
• Walter Tenney Carleton (1867–1900), one of the three founding directors of NEC Corporation
• Wayne Carleton (born 1946), retired Canadian ice hockey player
• William McKendree "Will" Carleton (1845–1912), American poet, who wrote mostly about rural life
• William Carleton (1794–1869), Irish novelist
• William Carleton (Massachusetts businessman) (1797–1876), American businessman
• William P. Carleton (1872-1947), American actor