| Olcott Hawthorne Deming | |
| Order: | 1st |
| Ambassador From: | United States |
| Country: | Uganda |
| President: | John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson |
| Term Start: | January 14, 1963 |
| Term End: | June 26, 1966 |
| Predecessor: | Office established |
| Successor: | Henry Endicott Stebbins |
| Office1: | U.S consul general in Okinawa |
| Term Start1: | 1957 |
| Term End1: | 1959 |
| Birth Date: | 28 February 1909 |
| Birth Place: | Westchester County, New York, United States of America |
| Death Place: | Washington D.C., United States of America |
| Education: | Rollins College (1935) |
Olcott Hawthorne Deming (February 28, 1909 – March 20, 2007) was an American career diplomat who was the first ambassador of the United States to Uganda.[1]
Deming, a great-grandson of Nathaniel Hawthorne, was born February 28, 1909, in Westchester County, New York.
He graduated from Rollins College in 1935, and worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority and as a teacher in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Deming joined the State Department in 1942. From 1957 to 1959, he was U.S. consul general in Okinawa. He served as Ambassador to the newly independent nation of Uganda from 1962 to 1965. He retired in 1969, later becoming an official of the American Foreign Service Association.
Deming died March 20, 2007, aged 98 of sepsis at a hospice in Washington, D.C.