Charles Hamilton may refer to:

Aristocracy

  • Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Abercorn (died 1701), Scottish peer
  • Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Haddington (1650–1685), Scottish nobleman
  • Charles Hamilton, 8th Earl of Haddington (1753–1828), Scottish nobleman
  • Charles Hamilton, Count of Arran (1691–1754)
  • Charles Hamilton, Count of Arran (1738–1800)
  • Sir Archibald Hamilton, 5th Baronet (Charles Edward Archibald Watkin Hamilton, 1876–1939), British convert to Islam
  • Sir Charles John James Hamilton, 3rd Baronet (1810–1892), of the Hamilton baronets
  • Charles Hamilton, 7th Earl of Selkirk (1847–1886), Scottish nobleman and officer

Military

  • Charles Hamilton (orientalist) (1753?–1792), British East India Company soldier, known for his English translation of Al-Hidayah
  • Charles Iain Hamilton, naval historian at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Charles Powell Hamilton (1747–1825), Royal Navy admiral
  • Charles R. Hamilton, US Army general and former commander of the United States Army Materiel Command
  • Charles S. Hamilton (admiral) (born 1952), US Navy admiral
  • Charles S. Hamilton (philatelist) (1882–1968), US Army colonel and philatelist
  • Charles Smith Hamilton (1822–1891), Union Army general during the American Civil War

Politics and government

  • Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning (1697–1732), Scottish politician
  • Charles Hamilton (MP, died 1710) (bef. 1640–1710), Irish member of parliament
  • Charles Hamilton (MP, born 1704) (1704–1786), member of parliament for Truro
  • Sir Charles Hamilton, 1st Baronet (1845–1928), British member of parliament for Rotherhithe, 1885–1892
  • Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet, of Marlborough House (1767–1849), governor of the colony of Newfoundland
  • Charles A. Hamilton, administrator of the British Indian Ocean Territory in 2005
  • Charles Edward Hamilton (1844–1919), Canadian politician
  • Charles Hadley Hamilton (1850–1915), Wisconsin lawyer and politician, son of Charles Smith Hamilton
  • Charles James Hamilton (1855–1937), Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons
  • Charles Mann Hamilton (1874–1942), US representative from New York, House minority whip
  • Charles McGill Hamilton (1878–1952), Canadian farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan
  • Charles Memorial Hamilton (1840–1875), US Representative from Florida
  • Charles V. Hamilton (1929–2023), political scientist and civil rights leader

Other fields

  • Charles Hamilton (bishop) (1834–1919), Anglican bishop of Ottawa
  • Charles Hamilton (female husband) (c. 1721–1724), woman who married while living as a man
  • Charles Hamilton (handwriting expert) (1913–1996), American paleographer, handwriting expert and author of historical works
  • Charles Hamilton (rapper) (born 1987), American rapper
  • Charles Hamilton (writer) (1876–1961), English story writer, primarily under the pen name Frank Richards
  • Charles H. Hamilton, one-time editor of the libertarian The Freeman journal
  • Charles K. Hamilton (1885–1914), early American aviator
  • Chuck Hamilton (1939–2023), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Charles "Uncle Chucc" Hamilton, a member of the production and songwriting collective 1500 or Nothin'

Fictional characters

  • Charles Hamilton, Scarlett O'Hara's first husband and Melanie Hamilton's brother in Gone with the Wind

See also

  • Hamilton, Charles (album), an album by rapper Charles Hamilton
  • Charles Baillie-Hamilton (disambiguation)