Hamlet (name)

Hamlet is both a masculine given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name:

• Hamlet Barrientos (born 1978), Bolivian footballer
• Hamlet Gonashvili (1928–1985), Georgian singer
• Hamlet Handley, English footballer
• Hamlet Isakhanli (born 1948), Azerbaijani mathematician and writer
• Hamlet Mkhitaryan (born 1973), Armenian footballer
• Hamlet Mkhitaryan (born 1962), Armenian Soviet footballer
• Hamlet Watling (1818–1908), English antiquarian
• Hamlet Winstanley (1698–1756), English painter and engraver

Surname:

• Douglas Hamlet (died 1995), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines murderer
• Harry G. Hamlet (1874–1954), Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
• Norm Hamlet, American guitarist

Fictional characters:

• Prince Hamlet, title character and protagonist of the William Shakespeare tragedy