Walther is a masculine given name and a surname. It is a

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...

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Walter Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...

, which is derived from the

Old High German Old High German (OHG; german: Althochdeutsch (Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally covering the period from around 750 to 1050. There is no standardised or supra-regional form of German at this period, and Old High ...

Walthari Walthari (also Waltheri, ) son of Wacho from his third wife Silinga, was a king of the Lombards from 539 to 546. He was an infant king, and rulership of the kingdom was administered by Audoin. Audoin probably killed Waltari before he reached manho ...

'', containing the elements ''wald'' -"power", "brightness" or "forest" and ''hari'' -"warrior". The name was first popularized by the famous epic German hero Walther von Aquitaine and later with the

Minnesänger (; "love song") was a tradition of lyric- and song-writing in Germany and Austria that flourished in the Middle High German period. This period of medieval German literature began in the 12th century and continued into the 14th. People who wr ...

Walther von der Vogelweide Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170c. 1230) was a Minnesänger who composed and performed love-songs and political songs (" Sprüche") in Middle High German. Walther has been described as the greatest German lyrical poet before Goethe; his hundr ...

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Walther Bauersfeld Walther Bauersfeld (23 January 1879 – 28 October 1959) was a German engineer. Life He was employed by the Carl Zeiss Jena, who, on a suggestion by the German astronomer Max Wolf, started work on the first projection planetarium in 1912. Th ...

(1879–1959), German engineer who built the first projection planetarium *

Walther Bothe Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe (; 8 January 1891 – 8 February 1957) was a German nuclear physicist, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1954 with Max Born. In 1913, he joined the newly created Laboratory for Radioactivity at the Reich Physi ...

(1891–1957), German nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate * Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German World War II field marshal * Walther Dahl (1916–1985), German World War II flying ace * Walther von Dyck (1856–1934), German mathematician * Walther Flemming (1843–1905), German biologist and a founder of cytogenetics * Walther Funk (1890–1960), economist and Nazi official convicted of war crimes in the Nuremberg Trials * Walther Hahm (1894–1951), German World War II general * Walther Hewel (1904–1945), German diplomat and one of Hitler's few personal friends * Walther Kossel (1888–1956), German physicist * Walther von Lüttwitz (1859–1942), German general and a leader of the unsuccessful Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch against the Weimar Republic * Walther Meissner (1882–1974), German technical physicist and discoverer of the Meissner effect * Walther Müller (1905–1979), German physicist * Walther Otto Müller (1833–1887), German botanist * Walther Nehring (1892–1983), German World War II general * Walther Nernst (1864–1941), German physical chemist and physicist; Nobel laureate in chemistry * Walther Rathenau (1867–1922), German industrialist, politician, writer, statesman and Foreign Minister of Germany for the Weimar Republic * Walther Ritz (1878–1909), Swiss theoretical physicist * Walther Schroth (1882–1944), German World War II general * Walther Schwieger (1885–1917), German World War I U-boat commander who sank the ''Lusitania'' * Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach, German World War II general * Walther Stampfli (1884–1965), Swiss politician *

(c. 1170–c. 1230), High German lyric poet * Walther Wenck (1900–1982), youngest general in the German Army during World War II * Walther Wever (general) (1887–1936), German general, commander of the Luftwaffe and proponent of strategic bombing * Walther Wever (pilot) (1923–1945), German flying ace and son of the above

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* Andrea Walther (born 1970), German mathematician * Augustin Friedrich Walther (1688–1746), German anatomist * Bernhard Walther (1430–1504), German astronomer for whom a lunar crater is named * C. F. W. Walther (1811–1887), German-American first President of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and its most influential theologian * Carl Walther (1858–1915), German gunsmith and founder of Walther Arms * Christoph Walther (born 1950), German computer scientist * Edgar Walther (1930-2013), Swiss chess player * Eric Walther (born 1975), German pentathlete * Erich Walther (1903–1947), German World War II general * Frédéric Henri Walther (1761–1813), Alsatian-born general in Napoleon's army * George Walther Sr. (1876–1961), American inventor * George H. Walther (1828–1895), American politician * Geraldine Walther (born 1950), American violist * Gesine Walther (born 1962), German sprinter * Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748), German organist and composer * Johann Jakob Walther (composer) (1650–1704), German composer/violinist * Johann Jakob Walther (artist), Johann Jakob Walther (1600–1679), German artist and botanical illustrator * Johannes Walther (1860–1937), German geologist * Kerstin Walther (born 1961), German sprinter * Kirsten Walther (1933–1987), Danish actress * Philipp Franz von Walther (1782–1849), German doctor

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