People
- the Barons Carleton
- Alex Carleton (b. 1968), American fashion and home-goods designer
- Billie Carleton (1896–1918), British actress
- Charles A. Carleton, American Union Civil War era brevet brigadier general
- Christopher Carleton (1749–1787), British Army officer
- 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.U. Representative from Michigan
- George Carleton (1559–1628), Bishop of Llandaff
- George W. Carleton, publisher, New York, (died 1901), published the books of Miriam Coles Harris.
- 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 (born 1955), former England international rugby union player
- 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
- 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) (1797–1876), American businessman
- Carleton S. Coon (1904–1981), an American physical anthropologist
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