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., American politician