Notable alumni of Hamilton College include:
- Author Samuel Hopkins Adams
- Theologian Albert Barnes
- Author Terry Brooks
- Representative to the United States Congress for
Delaware Michael N.
Castle 1961 -- Graduation Speaker 2004
- Nobel Prize winning scientist Paul Greengard, 1948
- Lawyer Sol M. Linowitz
1935
- Activist Robert Moses
- Author Ezra Pound
- US Secretary of State Elihu Root, 1864
- Vice-President James S. Sherman
- Behavioral Psychologist B.F. Skinner 1926
- Iowa Governor Thomas Vilsack 1972 -- Graduation Speaker
2001
- Abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld