The field was pioneered by staff of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, men such as John Wesley Powell and Frank Hamilton Cushing.

* 1808 – Hamilton Fish, American politician ( d. 1893 )

* 1929 – Roy Hamilton, American singer ( d. 1969 )

* 1939 – George Hamilton, American actor

* 1931 – Hamilton O. Smith, American microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1958 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater

* Nigel Hamilton Bill Clinton: An American Journey ( 2003 ) ISBN 0-375-50610-1

* 1963 – Carrie Hamilton, American actress ( d. 2002 )

In 2004, Booz Allen Hamilton selected Dartmouth College as a model of institutional endurance " whose record of endurance has had implications and benefits for all American organizations, both academic and commercial ," citing Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward and Dartmouth's successful self-reinvention in the late 19th century.

* 1902 – Margaret Hamilton, American actress ( d. 1985 )

* 1947 – Dave Hamilton, American baseball player

* 1961 – Phillip Hamilton, American author

* 1978 – Richard Hamilton, American basketball player

* 1963 – Laurell K. Hamilton, American writer

* 1812 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, American politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America and 50th Governor of Georgia ( d. 1883 )

* 1866 – Billy Hamilton, American baseball player ( d. 1940 )

* 1962 – Davey Hamilton, American race car driver

* 1755 – Alexander Hamilton, Nevis born American Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher ; 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury ( d. 1804 )

* 1980 – Ellen Hamilton Latzen, American actress

* 1886 – John Hamilton, American actor ( d. 1958 )

* 1937 – George Hamilton IV, American singer and guitarist

* 1971 – Tyler Hamilton, American cyclist

* 1964 – Laird Hamilton, American surfer

* 1964 – Lisa Gay Hamilton, American actress

During the contest, Hamilton recommended to Federalists that they support Jefferson because he was " by far not so dangerous a man " as Burr ; in short, he would much rather have someone with wrong principles than someone devoid of any.

The event involved a man by the name of Joseph Hamilton ( known locally as Jodie ) and a sharecropper named Carney Parsons.

Florence Vanderbilt ( 1854 – 1952 ), granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, renowned as the richest man in America, and her husband, financier, Hamilton McKown Twombly, came to the Morris County countryside in 1887, joining over 100 other millionaires who owned sprawling country retreats.

* Brushy Bill, the man who claimed to be the infamous outlaw, Billy the Kid is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Hamilton.

* Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, First man to fly over Mount Everest – born 71 Eccleston Square

He is a wanted man, not only for his revolutionary activities but also for a youthful dalliance in London where he had an eight-day liaison with Emma Hamilton.

His election to the chair of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh ( 1820 ) was unexpected, and the best qualified man in the United Kingdom, Sir William Hamilton, was also a candidate.

Her notable films include Lady Hamilton ( 1921 ; her breakthrough role ); Lucrezia Borgia ( 1926 ); Die Csardasfürstin ( 1927, based on the operetta by Emmerich Kálmán ); and the talkies Das Lied ist aus ( The Song Is Ended ) ( 1930 ) and Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn ( 1936 ).

Haig, Robertson, Hamilton and Smith-Dorrien ( who had travelled from France to pay his respects to a man with whom he had clashed badly ) were pall bearers at his funeral at Westminster Abbey – the first of a major First World War leader. He was buried at Ripple five days after his death.

The first white man ’ s residence within the city limits of Darlington was a log house owned by Jamison Hamilton in 1836.

There is some suggestion in one episode that he might still be in love with his first wife, Paula ( Ruth Silveira ), though they agree that their relationship is over, and Paula marries another man ( Hamilton Camp ).

Alexander Hamilton wrote of him: " Never perhaps did any man suffer death with more justice, or deserve it less.

In 1902, for example, the ethnographer Elsdon Best wrote to Augustus Hamilton, the future director of the Colonial Museum, to state that Hector should be forced from office and that they should ‘ put a live man in in his place ’.

Robert Hayne, who followed Hamilton as governor in 1833, established a 2, 000 man group of mounted minutemen and 25, 000 infantry who would immediately march to Charleston in the event of a military conflict.

The last creation of the earldom was in favour of the man who would become the first British Field Marshal, Lord George Hamilton, the fifth son of William Douglas, Duke of Hamilton.

He also obtained a promise from his then 16-year-old son, the future President Erskine Hamilton Childers, to seek out and shake the hand of every man who had signed his father's death warrant.

As a young man, he was employed as a bank clerk in Hamilton while pursuing an interest in acting.

Hamilton served as a young man in the Royal Navy.

In Miracle at Philadelphia, Catherine Drinker Bowen called Johnson " the perfect man to preside over these four masters of argument and political strategy fellow committee members Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Morris, James Madison, and Rufus King ... His presence on the committee must have been reassuring ; the doctor's quiet manner disarmed.

Hamilton released Foreststorn in 2001 featuring Euphoria with Cary DeNigris on guitar, Paul Ramsey on bass, and a new two horn front line featuring Eric Lawrence on alto and soprano saxes and Evan Schwam on tenor sax, as well as special guest appearances from former band members Arthur Blythe, Steve Turre and his wife Akua Dixon, Eric Person, former Spin Doctors guitarist Eric Schenkman ( a student of Chico's ), Blues Traveler front man John Popper ( also a student of Chico's ), and Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones.

* September 15, 1990: Debra Holt, the mother of future world champion boxer Kendall Holt, and also known as Debra Holts and " Cocoa Tan ", and three men she met while staying at the Alexander Hamilton Hotel, were convicted of killing a homeless man during an evening of senseless violence and crime in Paterson, NJ.

As Angel and Hamilton prepare to fight each other, she runs off, wishing them both luck: " May the best man win!

Hamilton forms a picture of a famous man with a troubled family, living in a troubled Rutland, England – also Hamilton's home county.