James Leonard Hamilton (born August 4, 1948) is an American basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach at Florida State University.

Other career benchmarks include the Big East Conference regular season championship in 2000, the ACC tournament title in 2012 and the ACC regular season championship in 2020.

Hamilton played college basketball at the University of Tennessee at Martin.

He was a successful recruiter for Kentucky basketball, with players including Jack Givens, James Lee, Sam Bowie and Melvin Turpin[2] Hamilton was named ACC Coach of the Year on March 10, 2009 and a second time in 2012,[3] and again in 2020.

[5] On February 3, 2025, Florida State announced that Leonard Hamilton would be resigning as head coach at the conclusion of the 2024–25 season.