Richard Hamilton

• Richard Hamilton (officer) (died 1717), Irish officer
• Richard Hamilton (Medal of Honor) (1836–1881), American Civil War sailor
• Richard Vesey Hamilton (1829–1912), British admiral and First Naval Lord

• Richard Hamilton (boxer), competed at the Boxing at the 1988 Summer Olympics for Jamaica
• Richard Hamilton (basketball) (born 1978), American basketball player
• Richard Hamilton (rower) (born 1973), British Olympic rower
• Rick Hamilton (Richard R. Hamilton, born 1970), American football player

• Richard Hamilton, 4th Viscount Boyne (1724–1789), Irish MP for Navan
• Richard Hamilton (actor) (1920–2004), American actor
• Richard Hamilton (artist) (1922–2011), British painter and collage artist
• Richard Hamilton (BBC journalist), author of 2011 book The Last Storytellers
• Richard S. Hamilton (1943–2024), American mathematician
• Richard Hamilton (mining) (1855–1943), mine manager at Boulder, Western Australia
• Richard Hamilton (winemaker) (1792–1852), founder of winery in South Australia
• Richard J. Hamilton (1799–1860), American judge and politician

• Richard Hamilton Rawson

{{hndis|Hamilton, Richard}}