你能写的最简单的代码:

    persons.stream().map(x-> x.getName()).distinct().collect(Collectors.toList());

有很多方法，这一个也会有帮助-简单，干净和清晰

    List<Employee> employees = new ArrayList<>();

    employees.add(new Employee(11, "Ravi"));
    employees.add(new Employee(12, "Stalin"));
    employees.add(new Employee(23, "Anbu"));
    employees.add(new Employee(24, "Yuvaraj"));
    employees.add(new Employee(35, "Sena"));
    employees.add(new Employee(36, "Antony"));
    employees.add(new Employee(47, "Sena"));
    employees.add(new Employee(48, "Ravi"));

    List<Employee> empList = new ArrayList<>(employees.stream().collect(
                    Collectors.toMap(Employee::getName, obj -> obj,
                    (existingValue, newValue) -> existingValue))
                   .values());

    empList.forEach(System.out::println);


    //  Collectors.toMap(
    //  Employee::getName, - key (the value by which you want to eliminate duplicate)
    //  obj -> obj,  - value (entire employee object)
    //  (existingValue, newValue) -> existingValue) - to avoid illegalstateexception: duplicate key

Output - toString()重载

Employee{id=35, name='Sena'}
Employee{id=12, name='Stalin'}
Employee{id=11, name='Ravi'}
Employee{id=24, name='Yuvaraj'}
Employee{id=36, name='Antony'}
Employee{id=23, name='Anbu'}

扩展Stuart Marks的回答，这可以用更短的方式完成，不需要并发映射(如果你不需要并行流):

public static <T> Predicate<T> distinctByKey(Function<? super T, ?> keyExtractor) {
    final Set<Object> seen = new HashSet<>();
    return t -> seen.add(keyExtractor.apply(t));
}

然后调用:

persons.stream().filter(distinctByKey(p -> p.getName());

另一个支持这个的库是jOOλ，它的Seq.distinct(Function<T,U>)方法:

Seq.seq(persons).distinct(Person::getName).toList();

实际上，它所做的事情与公认的答案几乎相同。

不同的对象列表可以使用:

 List distinctPersons = persons.stream()
                    .collect(Collectors.collectingAndThen(
                            Collectors.toCollection(() -> new TreeSet<>(Comparator.comparing(Person:: getName))),
                            ArrayList::new));

有一种更简单的方法，使用带有自定义比较器的TreeSet。

persons.stream()
    .collect(Collectors.toCollection(
      () -> new TreeSet<Person>((p1, p2) -> p1.getName().compareTo(p2.getName())) 
));