Colin Leo Hanton (born 12 December 1938) is an English musician, best known as the drummer for the 1950s skiffle band the Quarrymen, led by a young John Lennon.

[1] In the summer of 1956, Hanton helped form the Quarrymen along with John Lennon, Eric Griffiths, Pete Shotton and Rod Davis.

Hanton played drums on the Quarrymen's first recordings, a cover of The Crickets' "That'll Be the Day" and an original song by Paul McCartney and George Harrison, "In Spite of All the Danger", in 1958.

[1] He left the Quarrymen after an argument with the rest of the band following a disastrous performance at the Speke Bus Depot Social Club in Wavertree on 1 January 1959.

The band had gone through several line-up changes until January 1959 (by then, the group's members were Lennon, Hanton, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and John "Duff" Lowe):[1] We had drunk a few beers during the interval and an argument started on the way home on the bus.