- U.S. frontiersman and scout.
- Irish public official.
- U.S. television entertainer.
- U.S. marine biologist and author.
- a city in SW California.
- a river in N California and NW Nevada, flowing NE to the Carson Sink. 150 miles (241 km) long.
- a male or female given name.
- Christopher, known as Kit Carson. 1809–68, US frontiersman, trapper, scout, and Indian agent
- Edward Henry, Baron. 1854–1935, Anglo-Irish politician and lawyer; led northern Irish resistance to the British government's plan for home rule for Ireland
- Rachel (Louise). 1907–64, US marine biologist and science writer; author of Silent Spring (1962)
- Willie, full name William Hunter Fisher Carson. born 1942, Scottish jockey: rode four winners in the Derby (1979, 1980, 1989, 1994)