Leonard Hamilton

James Leonard Hamilton (born August 4, 1948) is an American former basketball coach. He served as the head coach at Florida State University from 2002 to 2025, and was previously a head coach at Oklahoma State University, the University of Miami, and for the National Basketball Association's Washington Wizards.

Over 33 years as a collegiate head coach, his teams qualified for 12 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournaments and 11 National Invitation Tournaments. The high points came with Florida State, including an appearance in the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight in 2018 and Sweet 16 runs in 2011, 2019, and 2021, along with an earlier Sweet 16 appearance with Miami in 2000. His teams won the Big East Conference regular season championship in 2000, the ACC tournament title in 2012, and the ACC regular season championship in 2020. Hamilton is the winningest coach in school history at Florida State and one of only four coaches with 200 regular season ACC wins.

Hamilton played college basketball at the University of Tennessee at Martin, where he was the first Black player in program history. He was a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, and worked as an assistant coach and associate head coach before becoming a head coach.