The name Robert W. Hamilton is shared by several notable historical, academic, and professional figures active throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Among the most prominent in academic and literary circles is Robert W. Hamilton (1931–2018), an American law professor whose influential career in legal education and scholarship is commemorated by the Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, an accolade named in his honor to recognize outstanding literary and scholarly achievements.
Another significant figure sharing the name is Robert William Hamilton (1905–1995), a British archaeologist and academic who contributed to the study of antiquity. Additionally, the name is associated with Robert Wilson Hamilton (1819–1904), an American-born lawyer and judge who served in Fiji, and Sir Robert William Hamilton (1867–1944), a Scottish Liberal politician and Member of Parliament for Orkney and Shetland.
Other notable individuals include Robert W. Hamilton (1899–1981), who served as a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and Robert William Hamilton Jr. (1930–2011), a hyperbaric physiologist. The name is also associated with the historic Robert W. Hamilton House, constructed in Murphysboro, Illinois, in 1867.
