Walter (name)

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Gender Male Meaning ruler of the army		Word/name Old High German
Related names Valter Valtyr Wouter Gauthier Gualterio Gualtierre

Walter or Walther is a German masculine given name derived from Old High German Walthari, from an even older Proto-Germanic name combining *wald- "ruler" and *χarja-, χari- "army". The Dutch name Wouter has the same Proto-Germanic origin.

The Latinized form is Waltharius, the title of a poem on the legendary Gothic king Walter of Aquitaine. A fragmentary Old English poem on the same character is known as Waldere. The name also entered the French language as Gauthier (and Wauthier), Spanish as Gutierre and Italian as Gualtiero.

Jacob Grimm in Teutonic Mythology speculates that Walthari, literally "wielder of hosts", may have been an epithet of the god of war, Ziu or Eor, and that the circumstance that the hero of the Waltharius poems loses his right hand in battle may be significant, linking him to the Norse tradition of Tyr.

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Ben Walter (born 1984), Canadian ice hockey player

Bruno Walter (1876–1962), German-American conductor and composer

Carl Walter (c. 1831–1907), German-Australian botanist and photographer

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Eugene Walter (1921–1998), American writer and actor

Francis E. Walter (1894–1963), American politician

Fritz Walter (football executive) (1900–1981), German football executive

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Fritz Walter (1920–2002), German footballer

Harriet Walter (born 1950), British actress

Harvey Washington Walter (1819-1878), American lawyer and railroad business executive.

Hellmuth Walter (1900–1980), German engineer

Hubert Walter (c. 1160 – 13 July 1205), English archbishop and justiciar

Jamie Campbell-Walter (born 1972), British professional racing driver

Jean Walter (1883–1957), French architect

Jessica Walter (born 1941), American actress

Joachim Walter (born 1940), East German football player

Joe Walter (American football) (born 1963), American football tackle

Joe Walter (footballer) (1895–1995), British football player

Joe Walter (Ohio politician) (born 1947), former member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Johann Walter (1496–1570), German composer and poet

Joseph Walter (1783–1856), British marine artist

Kevin Walter (born 1981), American football wide receiver

Ottmar Walter (1924–2013), German footballer

Otto F. Walter (1928–1994) Swiss journalist, author and publisher

Owen Walter (born 1979), Canadian ice hockey defenceman

Raymond Walter (born 1972), New York State Assemblyman

Ruedi Walter, (1916–1990) Swiss comedian and actor

Ryan Walter (born 1958), Canadian hockey player

Silja Walter (1919–2011) Swiss author and Benecditine nun

Thomas U. Walter (1804–1887), American architect

Thomas Walter (botanist) (1740–1789), British-born American botanist

Tracey Walter (born 1947), American character actor

Ulrich Walter (born 1954), German astronaut

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Walter Bender (Canadian football) (born 1961), American player of gridiron football

Walter Cronkite (1916–2009), an American journalist

Walter Crucce, an Argentine boxer

Walter Disney, an American film producer

Walter fitz Gilbert of Cadzow, a medieval Scottish nobleman

Walter Forster (disambiguation)

Walter Gropius, (1883-1969), a German architect

Walter Johnson, an American baseball pitcher, Hall of Fame member

Walter von Keudell (1884–1973), a German forest expert and politician

Walter Kirn, an American author

Walter Koenig (born 1936), an American actor

Walter R. Kramer (1914–1995) U.S. badminton champion

Walter Lantz, an American animator, cartoonist, and film producer

Walter Maslow (born 1926), American former actor

Walter Matthau (1920–2000), American actor

Walter Mazzarri, Italian football manager

Walter Mercado, a Puerto Rican astrologer

Walter Mondale, a Vice President of the United States

Walter Andreas Müller (born 1945), Swiss actor and comedian

Walter Murch, an American film editor and sound designer

Walter Dean Myers, an author

Walter Niephaus, a German chess master

Walter Packer, American football player

Walter Payton, an American football player

Walter Pedraza, a Colombian road cyclist

Walter Pidgeon, a Canadian actor

Walter Poddubny, a Canadian hockey player

Walter Raleigh, an English explorer

Walter Romberg, (1928-2014), a German politician

Walter Samuel (born 1978), Argentine footballer

Walter Schreifels, an American musician

Walter Schirra (1923–2007), Mercury Seven astronaut

Walter Scott (1771–1832), a Scottish novelist and poet

Walter Scott (disambiguation), for several people of the name

Walter of Serviliano, an Italian hermit, abbot and saint

Walter Smith, a Scottish football player and manager

Walter Shaw Sparrow (1862–1940), a British writer on art and architecture

Walter Stewart (disambiguation), for several people of this name

Walter Tetley, a former American child actor

Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973), German politician (SED), leader of East Germany from 1950 to 1971

Walter Veltroni (1955–), an Italian writer, journalist and politician

Walter Waalderbos, Dutch footballer

Walter Whitman (1819–1892), an American poet, journalist, essayist and humanist

Walter Bruce Willis (1955–), an American actor

Little Walter (1930–1968), an American blues harmonica player

Walter Zapp (1905–2003), a Baltic German inventor

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Walter (Muppet), a Muppet character introduced in the 2011 film The Muppets

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Walter the Softy Brown, an enemy of Dennis and Gnasher from The Beano comic since 1953

Walter Donovan, the main antagonist of the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Walter E. Kurtz, the main antagonist of the 1979 film Apocalypse Now

Walter Mitty, the title character in James Thurber's 1939 short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Corporal Walter Eugine "Radar" O’Reilly, from the 1968–1986 M*A*S*H franchise of books, movies, and television

Walter, one of the protagonists in the 2005 film Zathura

Walter Newell, secret identity of Stingray (comics), a Marvel Comics character since 1967

Walter Sobchak, Vietnam veteran and best friend of "The Dude" in the Coen Brothers' 1998 film The Big Lebowski

Walter White, the protagonist of the 2008–2013 TV series Breaking Bad

Dr. Walter Bishop, a scientist on the 2008–2013 TV series Fringe

Walter Joseph Kovacs, the secret identity of the vigilante "Rorschach" in Watchmen since 1968

Walter Blythe, a character in "Rainbow Valley" (1919), "Anne of Ingleside" (1939), and "Rilla of Ingleside" (1921)

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