Carleton (surname)
Carleton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alex Carleton, American fashion and home-goods designer
- Billie Carleton, British actress
- Bridget Carleton, Canadian basketball player
- Charles A. Carleton, American Union Civil War era brevet brigadier general
- Christopher Carleton, British Army officer
- Claire Carleton, American actress
- Dudley Carleton, Viscount Dorchester, English statesman and diplomat
- Dudley Carleton , nephew of the above, diplomat and Clerk of the Privy Council
- Ezra C. Carleton, U.U. Representative from Michigan
- George Carleton, prosecuted for involvement in the Marprelate controversy
- George Carleton , Bishop of Llandaff
- George W. Carleton, publisher, New York,, published the books of Miriam Coles Harris.
- George Carleton, American character actor
- Guy Carleton , Anglican clergyman
- Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, governor of Quebec and a general of British troops during the American War of Independence
- Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, English politician
- Hugh Carleton, New Zealand politician
- Isaac Newton Carleton, founder of Carleton School for Boys in Bradford, Massachusetts
- James Henry Carleton, American Major General
- Jesse Carleton, American golfer
- John Carleton
- Marie-Helene Carleton, American writer, photographer and filmmaker
- Mark A. Carleton, American botanist and plant pathologist
- Mark T. Carleton, Louisiana historian
- Mary Carleton, Englishwoman who used false identities to marry and defraud a number of men
- Nicholas Carleton, English composer
- Peter Carleton, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire
- Richard Carleton, Australian journalist
- Robert Louis Carleton, American composer who wrote "Ja-Da!"
- Thomas Carleton, first Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
- Walter Tenney Carleton, one of the three founding directors of NEC Corporation
- Wayne Carleton, retired Canadian ice hockey player
- William McKendree "Will" Carleton, American poet, who wrote mostly about rural life
- William Carleton, Irish novelist
- William Carleton , American businessman
- William P. Carleton, American actor
