Richard Hamilton may refer to:
- Richard Hamilton (officer) (died 1717), Irish officer
- Richard Hamilton, 4th Viscount Boyne (1724–1789), Irish MP for Navan
- Richard Hamilton (actor) (1920–2004), American actor
- Richard Hamilton (architect), American architect and cofounder of Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc
- Richard Hamilton (artist) (1922-2011), British painter and collage artist
- Richard Hamilton (basketball) (born 1978), American basketball player
- Richard Hamilton (BBC journalist), Author of The Last Storytellers
- Richard Hamilton (boxer), Jamaican, competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Richard Hamilton (mathematician) (born 1943), American mathematician
- Richard Hamilton (Medal of Honor) (1836–1881), American Civil War sailor
- Richard Vesey Hamilton (1829–1912), British admiral and First Naval Lord
- Rick Hamilton (Richard R. Hamilton, born 1970), American football player
Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or hamilton:
“I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
—Larry Forrester, U.S. screenwriter, Hideo Oguni, and Ryuzo Kikushima. Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku. Admiral Yamamoto (Soh Yamamura)
“For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written. It is the feeling early humans must have experienced when the firelight first overcame the darkness of the cave. It is the communal cooking pot, the Street, all over again. It is our need to know we are not alone.”
—Virginia Hamilton (b. 1936)