Lieutenant Colonel Sir Charles Denis Hamilton, DSO, TD (6 December 1918 – 7 April 1988) was an English newspaper editor. He was born in South Shields, County Durham, England, the son of an engineer from the Acklam iron and steel works who had retired early for health reasons. He was educated at the Middlesbrough High School for boys He joined the Boy Scouts and attained the rank of King's Scout. His first job in the newspaper industry began in 1936 as reporter for the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette. During World War II he served in the British Army and was an officer under Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.