Walther is a masculine given name and a surname. It is a German language, German form of Walter (name), Walter, which is derived from the Old High German ''Walthari'', containing the elements ''wald'' -"power", "brightness" or "forest" and ''hari'' -"warrior". The name was first popularized by the famous epic German hero Walter_of_Aquitaine, Walther von Aquitaine and later with the Minnesinger, Minnesänger Walther von der Vogelweide.

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* Walther Bauersfeld (1879–1959), German engineer who built the first projection planetarium * Walther Bothe (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 * Walther von der Vogelweide (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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