List of Famous people named Walter

Walter Moreira Salles Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.

Walter Rosenkranz is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the National Council for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) since 2008.

Walter "Schoko" Schachner is a football manager and former player, who played as a forward for the Austrian national side.

Walter Mayer is an Austrian Cross-country skier and coach. He won the Vasaloppet in 1980, and finished second in 1992. As a coach, he was banned from the 2006 and 2010 Olympics after blood transfusion equipment was found in a house used by Austrian skiers during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mayer was accused of blood doping violations and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced the ban after a three-month investigation.

Walter Gael Sandoval Contreras is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liga MX club Mazatlán on loan from Guadalajara.

Walter López Castellanos is a Guatemalan football referee. He refereed at 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers and 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

Walter Kreiser was a German aircraft designer and journalist, best known for publishing an article in the magazine The World Stage in 1929, which exposed the secret creation of a secret German Air Force in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Its publication resulted in him being convicted in 1931 of treason and espionage, receiving 18 months in prison (Weltbühne-Prozess) along with future (1935) Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl Ossietzky.

Walter Nowotny was an Austrian-born fighter ace of the Luftwaffe in World War II. He is credited with 258 aerial victories—that is, 258 aerial combat encounters resulting in the destruction of the enemy aircraft—in 442 combat missions. Nowotny achieved 255 of these victories on the Eastern Front and three while flying one of the first jet fighters, the Messerschmitt Me 262, in the Defense of the Reich. He scored most of his victories in the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, and approximately 50 in the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Nowotny scored an "ace in a day" on multiple occasions, shooting down at least five airplanes on the same day, including two occurrences of "double-ace in a day" in the summer of 1943.

Walter Brandmüller is a German prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal since 2010. He was president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences from 1998 to 2009.

Walter Riester is a German politician of the SPD and former Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.