public Set<Object> findDuplicates(List<Object> list) {
        Set<Object> items = new HashSet<Object>();
        Set<Object> duplicates = new HashSet<Object>();
        for (Object item : list) {
            if (items.contains(item)) {
                duplicates.add(item);
                } else { 
                    items.add(item);
                    } 
            } 
        return duplicates;
        }

时间复杂度:O(n):无设置

private static void removeDup(ArrayList<String> listWithDuplicateElements) {
    System.out.println(" Original Duplicate List :" + listWithDuplicateElements);
    List<String> listWithoutDuplicateElements = new ArrayList<>(listWithDuplicateElements.size());

    listWithDuplicateElements.stream().forEach(str -> {
        if (listWithoutDuplicateElements.indexOf(str) == -1) {
            listWithoutDuplicateElements.add(str);
        }
    });     

    System.out.println(" Without Duplicate List :" + listWithoutDuplicateElements);
}

还有来自Guava的ImmutableSet作为一个选项(这里是文档):

ImmutableSet.copyOf(list);

如前所述，应该使用实现Set接口的类而不是List来确保元素的唯一性。如果必须保持元素的顺序，则可以使用SortedSet接口;TreeSet类实现了该接口。

这样可以解决以下问题:

private List<SomeClass> clearListFromDuplicateFirstName(List<SomeClass> list1) {

     Map<String, SomeClass> cleanMap = new LinkedHashMap<String, SomeClass>();
     for (int i = 0; i < list1.size(); i++) {
         cleanMap.put(list1.get(i).getFirstName(), list1.get(i));
     }
     List<SomeClass> list = new ArrayList<SomeClass>(cleanMap.values());
     return list;
}

public Set<Object> findDuplicates(List<Object> list) {
        Set<Object> items = new HashSet<Object>();
        Set<Object> duplicates = new HashSet<Object>();
        for (Object item : list) {
            if (items.contains(item)) {
                duplicates.add(item);
                } else { 
                    items.add(item);
                    } 
            } 
        return duplicates;
        }