Hanson "Sammy" Carter (15 March 1878 – 8 June 1948) was a cricketer who played for Australia and New South Wales.

His highest Test score was 72, batting at number 3 as nightwatchman, against England in Adelaide in 1911–12.

[3] In 1932, at the age of 54, he toured the U.S. and Canada with an unofficial side captained by Vic Richardson.

In 1946 the England captain Wally Hammond and Major Rupert Howard (Secretary of Lancashire County Cricket Club and MCC tour manager) went to visit Sammy Carter in Sydney.

The wicketkeeper of Warwick Armstrong's 1921 Australians, who now used a wheelchair, had donated £1,000 to the restoration of the Old Trafford cricket ground which had been bombed during the war.