Walt
Walt is a masculine given name, generally a short form of Walter, and occasionally a surname. Notable people with the name include:
People
Given name
- Walt Anderson (American football), American football official
- Walt Arfons, American drag racer and competition land speed record racer
- Walt Bellamy, American National Basketball Association player, two-time Basketball Hall of Fame inductee
- Walt Bellamy (ice hockey), Canadian hockey player
- Walter Blackman, American member of the Arizona House of Representatives
- Walt Bowyer, American National Football League player
- Walt Brown (politician), American politician
- Walt Clago, American football player
- Walt Conley, American singer
- Walt Corey, American National Football League player
- Walt Disney, American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Walt Dropo, American Major League Baseball and college basketball player
- Walt Frazier, American National Basketball Association player, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
- Walt Handelsman, American editorial cartoonist, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize
- Walt Harris (coach), American college football player and coach and National Football League coach
- Walt Harris (cornerback), American National Football League player
- Walt Hazzard, American college and National Basketball Association player and college basketball coach
- Walt Housman, American football player
- Walt Jocketty, American baseball executive
- Walt Kellner, American baseball player
- Walt Kiesling, American Hall-of-Fame National Football League player and coach
- Walt Kelly, American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Pogo
- Walt Koken, American claw-hammer banjo player, fiddler, and singer
- Walt Kowalczyk, American college football and National Football League player
- Walt Lamb, American football player
- Walt Lemon Jr., American basketball player in the Israel Basketball Premier League
- Walt Nauta, American political aide
- Walt Peacosh, Canadian ice hockey player
- Walt Radzick, Canadian Football League player
- Walt Schmetzer, American soccer player
- Walt Secord, Australian politician
- Walt Simonson, American comic book writer and artist
- Walt Singer, American football player
- Walt Szczerbiak, American basketball player
- Walt Szot, American National Football League player
- Walt Tauscher, American baseball player
- Walt Tkaczuk, Canadian ice hockey player
- Walt Tomenga, American politician
- Walt Torrence, American basketball player
- Walt Uzdavinis, American football player
- Walt Weiss, American Major League Baseball player and manager
- Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist
- Walt Zirinsky, American football player
Surname
- Lewis William Walt, United States Marine Corps four-star general
- Martin Walt, professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, father of Stephen Walt
- Sherman Walt, American bassoonist
- Stephen Walt, American professor of international affairs
Fictional characters
- Walt Boggis, a main antagonist of Fantastic Mr. Fox
- Walt Lloyd, on the television series Lost
- Walt Longmire, on the television series Longmire
- Walt Stone, from the series The Kane Chronicles
- Walt Wallet, in the newspaper comic strip ''Gasoline Alley''