Comments for WALTER:

Walt Brown was the Socialist Party candidate for the US presidency in 2004.

-- TheJessica  7/20/2005

Let's not forget the famous Walt Disney.

-- tambug  1/13/2006

Walter Cuthbert Blythe was a character in Anne of Green Gables. He was Anne's second son and third child.

-- Kris-tine  7/13/2006

Walter C. Dornez is a butler in the manga Hellsing, by Kohta Hirano. Walter Sullivan is also the name of a serial killer in the fourth installment of the Silent Hill video game series.

-- SerasVictoria  7/21/2006

I don't particularly like the name Walter but I do like the nickname Wat for it! It reminds me of Wat from a Knights Tale hehe :)

-- downinalbion  10/30/2006

A very nice name. It reminds me of a bright eyed man with a dazzling smile and a big imagination.

-- arrowhead909  1/24/2007

Walter Fricke wrote the book "Sudden Strangers: The Story of a Gay Son and His Father" with the help of his son, Aaron.

-- Emmasj  4/18/2007

Walter Cronkite (journalist), Walter Matthau (actor), Walter Mondale (politician), Walter Gropius (architect), Sir Walter Raleigh (writer and explorer), and Sir Walter Scott (writer) are particularly famous bearers of the name. It was also actor Bruce Willis's original first name. Incidentally, Walter Blythe, Anne's son in the Anne of Green Gables books, was named after Anne's late father, Walter.

-- valerie28  6/12/2007

Itīs also the Czech form.
Name Day: 9th January.

-- Maggie_Simpson  7/9/2007

Walter Glass was a character from J. D. Salinger's glass family short stories/Novels.

-- So Be It  7/18/2007

Walter Gay is a character in Charles Dickens' novel "Dombey and Son."

-- Kate  11/25/2007

In the documentary Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, Walter McCandless was Chris McCandless' controlling father.

-- Carriebear_Nocare  2/2/2008

Walter is the name of the dad in the show Drake and Josh.

-- Anonymous User  3/14/2008

A famous bearer was Canadian-born actor Walter Huston (April 6, 1884 - April 7, 1950). He is well-known for his roles in 'The Virginian' (1929), 'American Madness' (1932), 'Dodsworth' (1936), 'The Devil and Daniel Webster' (1941), 'Yankee Doodle Dandy' (1942), the latter three for which he received Academy Award nominations for. He also won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (1948).

-- AndrewJKD  4/11/2008

In Serbian and Croation the name Walter is "Vlado", similar to English Waldo. In Polish it's "Vah-zhoo" and Russian, "Vladimir". When I was a child I was called by the diminutive, "Vla-DEE".

-- padleynj  5/12/2008

The name always makes me think of grumpy old men and fat, balding, and obnoxious middle-aged men.

-- slight night shiver  5/13/2008

Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly of the M*A*S*H 4077.

-- Atarah Derek  5/21/2008

Walter Elra Sithol is the sadistic adolescent protagonist of Scott Loring Sanders' "The Hanging Woods."

-- EmilyOlive  5/22/2008

This name is also used in Limburgish.

-- Lucille  10/18/2008

Dr Walter Freeman (1895-1972) was a neurosurgeon who performed 3500 lobotomies in USA. He is called "the lobotomist".
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lobotomist/program/index.html

-- Anonymous User  11/1/2008

Listen to the German pronunciation of Walter here:
http://www.nordicnames.de/Aussprache.html

-- _satu_  1/2/2009

A famous bearer, Walter Koenig, portrayed Ensign Chekov in Star Trek (TOS).

-- nenmo  3/13/2009

The only person I know with this name is a little boy. It sounds very pleasant and refreshing to me. I like Walt as a nickname, too.

-- MoonAgeDaydreamer  6/23/2009

Walter is also widely used in Italy, where it is pronounced VHAL-ter.

-- Anonymous User  10/11/2009

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