General Carleton may refer to:
Guy Carleton (United States Army officer) (1857–1946), U.S. Army major general Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724–1808), British Army general Henry Alexander Carleton (1814–1900), British Army general James Henry Carleton (1814–1873), Union Army brigadier general and brevet major general
See also Mark Carleton-Smith (born 1964), British Army general