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Walter Harper, the first person to set foot on the summit of Denali. He was a 20-year-old Irish-Koyukon guide for the Stuck-Karstens expedition of 1913.
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In the MMORPG Mabinogi, Walter is the name of the NPC who runs the general store in the town Dunbarton.
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Walter Mirisch (born November 8, 1921) is an American film producer who is the oldest living Academy Award recipient. He received the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1968 for In the Heat of the Night.
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Yooo Walter the bull terrier is a popular meme. His real name is Nelson but we don't talk about that.
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Walter Pidgeon was a famous bearer.
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Walter Blythe.
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Walter Lee Younger is a main character in Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun.
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Walter Collins, the boy who disappeared in 1928.
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Walter Palmer, the dentist and trophy hunter who killed many animals, with his most famous victim being Cecil the Lion.
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Walter Finch, Edith Finch Jr.'s deceased 53 year-old great-uncle from the popular game, "What Remains of Edith Finch."
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Walter Mondale was Jimmy Carter's vice president.
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Walter Clements, likes fire trucks and moster trucks.
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Walter Brown, main antagonist foil to the comic book and television character from the U.K., “Dennis the Menace and Gnasher”.
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Walter Donovan is a famous Walter, the main antagonist in Indiana Jones of the Last Crusade.
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Walter Dempster, Jr., better known by his alias Walterina Markova, was a Filipino gay man who was forced as a "comfort gay" for Japanese soldiers during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II.
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Walter was the name of Danny's older brother in The movie ZATHURA.
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This is Bruce Willis's real name.
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Walter O'Brien from Fox's series Scorpion.
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The new Muppet character from the recent Muppets movies is named Walter.
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Walter Hartwell White (alias Heisenberg) is the main protagonist in the American television drama Breaking Bad. He was created by series creator Vince Gilligan and is portrayed by Bryan Cranston. The character's son is called Walter Jr. Given the popularity of the series, it will be interesting to see if there is a renewed interest in the name.
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Walter of Serviliano, a Benedictine hermit.
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Walter White from Breaking Bad.
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Walter Joseph Kovacs is the "real" name of Rorschach from Alan Moore's Watchmen series.
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Walter is the name of Walter Bishop, the mad scientist on the TV show FRINGE.
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This name brings to mind Paul Stewart's book Muddle Earth, where the Horned Baron, named Walter, has an incredibly annoying wife who has ordered him to buy her some singing curtains. The wife always yells, "WAL-TER! Where are my singing curtains?"
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Walter Kovacs is the name of the alter-ego of the vigilante Rorschach in the comic book/graphic novel Watchmen.
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A famous bearer, Walter Koenig, portrayed Ensign Chekov in Star Trek (TOS).
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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
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lobotomist/program/index.html
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Walter Elra Sithol is the sadistic adolescent protagonist of Scott Loring Sanders' "The Hanging Woods."
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Corporal Walter "Radar" O'Reilly of the M*A*S*H 4077.
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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).
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Walter is the name of the dad in the show Drake and Josh.
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In the documentary Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, Walter McCandless was Chris McCandless' controlling father.
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Walter Gay is a character in Charles Dickens' novel "Dombey and Son."
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Walter Glass was a character from J. D. Salinger's glass family short stories/Novels.
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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.
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Walter Fricke wrote the book "Sudden Strangers: The Story of a Gay Son and His Father" with the help of his son, Aaron.
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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.
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Walter Cuthbert Blythe was a character in Anne of Green Gables. He was Anne's second son and third child.
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Let's not forget the famous Walt Disney.
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Walt Brown was the Socialist Party candidate for the US presidency in 2004.
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