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:
“If thee thy brittle beauty so deceives,
Know then the thing that swells thee is thy bane;
For the same beauty doth, in bloody leaves.
The sentence of thy early death contain.”
—Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666)
“Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.”
—Gail Hamilton (1833–1896)