Carleton is a given name.
Those bearing it include:
(Deceased)
Carleton Watkins (1829 - 1916), American photographerCarleton Clement (1896 – 1917), Canadian fighter pilotCarleton Bartlett Gibson (1863 – 1927)Carleton Coon (musician) (1898 - 1932), American musician of Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk OrchestraCarleton Wiggins (1848 – 1932), American painterCarleton Tufnell (1856 – 1940), English cricketerCarleton Ellis (1876 – 1941), American chemistCarleton Winslow (1876 – 1946), American architect(Ernest) Carleton Bass (born 1876), Irish-born bullfighter in U.S.Carleton Rea (1861 – 1946), English botantistCarleton Lewis Brownson (1866 - 1948), American classical-languages scholar & academic administratorGeorge Carleton Lacy (1888 - 1951), American missionary in ChinaCarleton O'Brien (1903 -- 1952), American racketeerCarleton Roy Ball (1873 — 1958), American botanistCarleton Bruns Joeckel (1886 – 1960), American librarian & scholarCarleton F. Burke (died 1962), American horse breeder and racer, namesake of Carleton F. Burke HandicapCarleton Raymond Mabley (1878-1963), American automotive entrepreneurCarleton Kemp Allen (1887 – 1966), Australian-born British academicCarleton Washburne (1889 – 1968), American educatorCarleton Kendrake, psedudonym of Erle Stanley Gardner (1889 – 1970), American lawyer & novelistCarleton H. Wright (1892 – 1970), American naval officerCarleton Garretson Young (1907 - 1971), American actorCarleton J. King (1904 – 1977), American politicianCarleton Lamont MacMillan (1903–1978), Canadian physician & politicianCarleton Beals (1893 – 1979), American journalistCarleton S. Coon (1904 – 1981), American anthropologistRobert Carleton Smith (1908-1984), American arts administratorCarleton G. Howe (1898 – 1993), American orchardist & politicianCarleton Young (1905 – 1994), American actorCarleton Putnam (1901 – 1998), American entrepreneur & al.Carleton Weir Elliott (1928 - 2003), Canadian musicianDaniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923 – 2008), American medical researcherCarleton Naiche-Palmer (1947 – 2010), American native-tribe politicianCarleton Opgaard (1929 – 2014), American academic administratorCarleton Mabee (1914 – 2014), American writer(Living)
Carleton Upham Carpenter, Jr. (born 1926), American performerCarleton Perry (born 1931), American politicianCarleton "Carty" S. Finkbeiner (born 1939), American politicianCarleton H. Sheets (born 1939), American real-estate entrepreneurCarleton D. Powell (born 1939), American juristCarleton Oats (born 1942), American football playerCara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina (born 1954), American business executive & political candidateCarleton Leonard (born 1958), English footballerCarleton Scott (born 1988), American basketball playerCarleton Olegario Máximo, nominal author of thousands of works reprinted from Wikipedia contentCarleton E. Carey Sr. (fl. c. 2010), American politician