Carleton is a given name.
Those bearing it include:
(Deceased)
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 botantist
Carleton Lewis Brownson (1866 - 1948), American classical-languages scholar & 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 & 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, psedudonym of Erle Stanley Gardner (1889 – 1970), American lawyer & 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 & politician
Carleton Beals (1893 – 1979), American journalist
Carleton S. Coon (1904 – 1981), American anthropologist
Robert Carleton Smith (1908-1984), American arts administrator
Carleton G. Howe (1898 – 1993), American orchardist & politician
Carleton Young (1905 – 1994), American actor
Carleton Putnam (1901 – 1998), American entrepreneur & al.
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
(Living)
Carleton Upham Carpenter, Jr. (born 1926), 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 & 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. (fl. c. 2010), American politician
