Walter (name)

As of 2014, 43.5% of all known bearers of the surname Walter were residents of Germany (frequency 1:643), 23.4% of the United States (1:5,374), 5.0% of Nigeria (1:12,307), 4.0% of France (1:5,814), 2.0% of Austria (1:1,467), 1.9% of England (1:10,157), 1.8% of Brazil (1:38,529), 1.6% of Australia (1:5,113), 1.4% of Angola (1:6,511), 1.3% of Canada (1:9,641), 1.3% of Switzerland (1:2,176), 1.2% of Ghana (1:7,682), 1.1% of Argentina (1:13,353), 1.0% of Poland (1:12,776) and 1.0% of South Africa (1:19,181).

In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:643) in the following states:[3]

1. Baden-Württemberg (1:386)
2. Bremen (1:422)
3. Brandenburg (1:450)
4. Hesse (1:526)
5. Saxony-Anhalt (1:539)
6. Rhineland-Palatinate (1:599)
7. Thuringia (1:603)
8. Bavaria (1:606)
9. Saxony (1:621)
10. Saarland (1:627)

• Walter, Count of Rethel (died 1262), French nobleman
• Walter (abbot of Evesham) or Walter de Cerisy (died 1104), English church leader
• Walter (archbishop of Sens) (fl.887–923), French church leader
• Walter (bishop of Rochester) (died 1182), English church leader
• Walter (bishop of Wrocław) (fl.1149–1169), Episcopal Walloon
• Walter W. Arndt (1916–2011), German-American translator
• Walter Lewis Baily, Jr. (1930–2013), American mathematician
• Walter Bender (born 1956), president of One Laptop Per Child Software and Content
• Walter Bender (Canadian football) (born 1961), American player of gridiron football
• Walter Blackman, American Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives
• Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, German general (General of the Infantry) during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Demyansk Pocket
• Walter de Coutances (died 1207), Archbishop of Rouen and Chief Justiciar of England
• Walter von Cronberg, 38th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
• Walter Cronkite (1916–2009), American journalist
• Walter Clements, Internet Meme of a white bull terrier staring into the camera, often declaring “I like fire trucks and moster [monster] trucks. Walter.”
• Walter Crucce, Argentine boxer
• Walter Day (born 1949), American businessman, musician, & retired video game referee
• Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex (1541-1576)
• Walter "Walt" Disney (1901-1966), American film producer, animator, voice actor and entrepreneur, pioneer of the American animation industry
• Walter Duranty (1884–1957), Anglo-American journalist
• Walter Eisfeld (1905–1940), German Nazi SS commandant of Sachsenhausen concentration camp
• Walter Feit (1930–2004), American mathematician
• Walter Fernando, Sri Lankan Sinhala air chief marshal, Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force from 1986-1991
• Walter fitz Gilbert of Cadzow, medieval Scottish nobleman
• Walter fitz Alan, twelfth-century Scottish magnate and Steward of Scotland
• Walter Forster (disambiguation)
• Walter Flanagan, host of the Tell 'Em Steve-Dave and star of AMC's Comic Book Men
• Walter Gericke, German paratroop officer in the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany during World War II and a general in the Bundeswehr of West Germany
• Walter Godefroot, retired Belgian road bicycle racer and cycling team manager
• Walter Gropius, (1883-1969), German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture, a leading architect of the International Style
• Walter Hahn, Austrian professional wrestler
• Walter Hagen, German general, aviator, pilot in the Luftwaffe during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves of Nazi Germany
• Walter Hagen, American golfer
• Walter Heitz, German general (Generaloberst) in the Wehrmacht during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Battle of Stalingrad
• C. Walter Hodges, English artist and writer best known for illustrating children's books and for helping to recreate Elizabethan theatre
• Walter Johnson, American baseball player
• Walter von Keudell (1884–1973), German forest expert and politician
• Walter Keane (1915-2000), American plagiarist, known for claiming MDH Keane's big-eyed waif paintings as his own
• Walter Kirn, American author
• Walter Koenig (born 1936), American actor
• Walter R. Kramer (1914–1995) U.S. badminton champion
• Walter Kreye (born 1942), German actor
• Walter Lantz, American animator, cartoonist, and film producer
• Walter Lübcke (1953–2019), German politician
• Walter Ralston Martin (1928-1989) American Baptist Christian Minister.
• Walter Martos (born 1957), Peruvian retired military general and current prime minister of Peru
• Walter Maslow (born 1926), American former actor
• Walter Matthau (1920–2000), American actor
• Walter Mazzarri, Italian football manager
• Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologer
• Walter Mondale, Vice President of the United States
• Walter "Junie" Morrison (1954–2017), American funk musician, member of the Ohio Players
• Walter Andreas Müller (born 1945), Swiss actor and comedian
• Walter Murch, American film editor and sound designer
• Walter Dean Myers, author
• Walter Niephaus, German chess master
• Walter Ophey (1882–1930) German painter
• Walter Packer, American football player
• Walter Palmore (born 1996), American football player
• Walter Payton, American football player
• Walter Pedraza, Colombian road cyclist
• Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor
• Walter Poddubny, Canadian hockey player
• Walter Raleigh, English explorer
• Walter Rauff, SS commander in Nazi Germany involved in the development of gas vans and mobile gas chambers used to kill those people deemed enemies of the German state by poisoning or suffocation
• Walter Ritz Swiss physicist
• Walter Romberg, (1928–2014), German politician
• Walter Samuel (born 1978), Argentine footballer
• Walter Schellenberg, German SS functionary during the Nazi era, one of the highest ranking men in the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and head of foreign intelligence for Nazi Germany following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944
• Walter Schreifels, American musician
• Walter Schirra (1923–2007), Mercury Seven astronaut
• Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish novelist and poet
• Walter Scott (disambiguation), several people
• Walter of Serviliano, Italian hermit, abbot and saint
• Walter Short, lieutenant general in the United States Army and the U.S. military commander responsible for the defense of U.S. military installations in Hawaii at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941
• Walter Sillers, American lawyer and planter
• Walter Sillers Jr., American politician and white supremacist
• Walter Sisulu (1912–2003), South African politician.
• Walter Smith, Scottish football player and manager
• Walter Shaw Sparrow (1862–1940), British writer on art and architecture
• Walter Stahlecker, commander of the SS security forces (Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) and the Sicherheitsdienst(SD)) for the Reichskommissariat Ostland in 1941–42, commander of Einsatzgruppe A, the most murderous of the four Einsatzgruppen (death squads during the Holocaust) active in German-occupied Eastern Europe, main perpetrator of Burning of the Riga synagogues
• Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, general in the German Wehrmacht during World War II, one of the principal commanders of Demyansk Pocket
• Walter Stewart (disambiguation), several people
• Walter Tetley, American child actor
• Walter Tewksbury, American athlete
• Walter Thornburn (1842–1908), British politician
• Walter Ulbricht (1893–1973), German politician, leader of East Germany, 1950–71
• Walter Veltroni (born 1955), Italian writer, journalist and politician
• Walter Waalderbos, Dutch footballer
• Walter Whitman (1819–1892), American poet, journalist, essayist and humanist
• Walter Bruce Willis (born 1955), American actor
• Walter Willison, Tony Award nominated American actor, singer, writer, director, producer
• Little Walter (1930–1968), American blues harmonica player
• Walter Zapp (1905–2003), Baltic German inventor
• Walter E. Zink US Army Major General

• Walther
• Valter
• Walt, name
• Walters (disambiguation)
• Wat (disambiguation)
• Walker, unrelated but has a similar spelling
• Waldemar (disambiguation)
• Vladimir (name)