(b London, 24 Feb 1922). English painter and printmaker. Three different strands of training and experience contributed to his early life and career after being taught briefly by Mark Gertler at Westminster Technical College in 1936: a traditional training at the Royal Academy Schools (1938-40, 1945-6), from which he was eventually expelled 'for not profiting by the instruction given in the Painting School'; experience in commercial art at the Design Unit (1941-2) and at the record company EMI (1942-5); and an avant-garde, modernist-influenced training at the Slade School of Fine Art (1948-51). These prepared the ground for his subsequent exploration of the means by which received boundaries between 'high' and 'low' art could be eliminated, in order to examine the relationships between diverse forms of expression, styles and currents of taste normally considered mutually exclusive.

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Richard Hamilton may refer to:

• Richard Hamilton (actor) (1920–2004)
• Richard Hamilton (architect), American architect and cofounder of Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc
• Richard Hamilton (artist) (born 1922), British painter and collage artist
• Richard Hamilton (basketball) (born 1978)
• Richard Hamilton (professor) (born 1943), mathematics professor
• Richard Hamilton (sailor) (1836–1881), American Civil War sailor
• Richard Hamilton (boxer), Jamaican, competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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