Frederick Hambright (May 1, 1727, n.s.– March 9, 1817) was a military officer who fought in both the local militia and in the North Carolina Line of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

Serving as a statesman early in the Revolution, Hambright joined the war in 1777, ranked a lieutenant colonel in a local militia.

This changed in 1780 with Hambright's important role at the Battle of Kings Mountain, which occurred near his lands in the newly formed Lincoln County, North Carolina.

Frederick Hambright was born to Conrad Hambrecht on May 1, 1727, in Moosbach, Bavaria (then part of the Holy Roman Empire and in present-day Germany).

He lived there for the first eleven years of his life, until the family immigrated to the Pennsylvania Colony on October 27, 1738, initially settling in Lancaster County.

"[8] After receiving this message, Patriot leaders Isaac Shelby and John Sevier quickly planned a preemptive campaign against Ferguson's army.

The army met with Cleveland's 350 men at Burke County, North Carolina,[11] and the now 1,400–strong force marched towards the South Mountains.

This message did not reach Cornwallis in time, and on October 1 Ferguson retreated towards the Broad River, asking for local loyalist militia to join him.

Hambright's comrades were impressed with his bravery, and as fellow soldier, Samuel Moore, later put it: "He knew he was wounded, but was not sick or faint from the loss of blood— [he] said he could still ride very well, and therefore deemed it his duty to fight on till the battle was over.