Walter (name)

Walter, Walther
Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Old High German
Meaning	ruler of the army
Other names
Related names	Valter Valtyr Gauthier Gualterio Gualtierre

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Walter or Walther is a masculine given name, from an Old High German Walthari, containing the elements wald "rule" and hari "army, warrior".^[1]

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 Dutch equivalent of the name is Wouter. 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.

List of people called Walter

Surname

Andrew Walter (born 1982), American football quarterback
Anton Walter (1752–1826), German piano maker
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
David Walter (disambiguation), several people
Eugene Walter (1921–1998), American writer and actor
Francis E. Walter (1894–1963), American politician
Fritz Walter (football executive) (1900–1981), German football executive
Fritz Walter (footballer born 1960), German footballer
Fritz Walter (politician) (1896–1977), German politician
Fritz Walter (1920–2002), German footballer
Harriet Walter (born 1950), British actress
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
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

Given name

Walter Baxter (1915–1994), an English novelist
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, 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, 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), leader of East Germany from 1950 to 1971
Walter Veltroni (1955–), an Italian writer, journalist and politician
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
"Agent Walter", early codename of Josip Broz Tito
Walter, pseudonym of the author of My Secret Life (erotic memoir)

Fictional

Walter, Vladimir Perić Valter aka Walter or Valter, an iconic figure from the film Valter Brani Sarajevo
Walter (Muppet), a Muppet character introduced in the 2011 film The Muppets
Walter, a puppet of ventriloquist Jeff Dunham (1962–)
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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