Walther () is a masculine given name and a surname. It is a German form of

Walter Walter may refer to: People and fictional characters * Walter (name), including a list of people and fictional and mythical characters with the given name or surname * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–19 ...

, which is derived from the

Old High German Old High German (OHG; ) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050. Rather than representing a single supra-regional form of German, Old High German encompasses the numerous ...

'' Walthari'', 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

Walther von der Vogelweide Walther von der Vogelweide (; ) 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 hundred or s ...

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* Walther Bauersfeld (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 physicist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Max Born "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith". He served in the military durin ...

(1891–1957), German nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate *

Walther von Brauchitsch Walther Heinrich Alfred Hermann von Brauchitsch (4 October 1881 – 18 October 1948) was a German ''Generalfeldmarschall'' (Field Marshal) and Commander-in-Chief (''Oberbefehlshaber'') of the German Army during the first two years of World War ...

(1881–1948), German World War II field marshal * Walther Dahl (1916–1985), German World War II flying ace *

Walther von Dyck Walther Franz Anton von Dyck (6 December 1856 – 5 November 1934), born Dyck () and later ennobled, was a German mathematician. He is credited with being the first to define a mathematical group, in the modern sense in . He laid the foundation ...

(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 von Klingen (died March 1, 1284), Minnesänger and Nobleman from Thurgau *

Walther Kossel Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel (; 4 January 1888 – 22 May 1956) was a German chemist and physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel–Stranski ...

(1888–1956), German physicist *

Walther von Lüttwitz Walther Karl Friedrich Ernst Emil Freiherr von Lüttwitz (2 February 1859 – 20 September 1942) was a German general who fought in World War I. Lüttwitz is best known for being the driving force behind the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch of 1920 w ...

(1859–1942), German general and a leader of the unsuccessful Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch against the Weimar Republic *

Walther Meissner Fritz Walther Meißner (anglicized: ''Meissner'') (16 December 1882 – 16 November 1974) was a German technical physicist. Meißner was born in Berlin to Waldemar Meißner and Johanna Greger. He studied mechanical engineering and physics at ...

(1882–1974), German technical physicist and discoverer of the Meissner effect * Walther Müller (1905–1979), German physicist *

Walther Otto Müller Walther Otto Müller, also Otto Müller, (20 June 1833 – 17 July 1887, in Gera) was a German botanist and gardner.Frahm & Eggers: ''Lexikon deutschsprachiger Bryologen.'' He was mainly interested in Cryptogamae, in particular lichen and mosses. M ...

(1833–1887), German botanist * Walther Nehring (1892–1983), German World War II general *

Walther Nernst Walther Hermann Nernst (; 25 June 1864 – 18 November 1941) was a German physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped ...

(1864–1941), German physical chemist and physicist; Nobel laureate in chemistry *

Walther Rathenau Walther Rathenau (; 29 September 1867 – 24 June 1922) was a German industrialist, writer and politician who served as foreign minister of Germany from February 1922 until his assassination in June 1922. Rathenau was one of Germany's leading ...

(1867–1922), German industrialist, politician, writer, statesman and Foreign Minister of Germany for the Weimar Republic *

Walther Ritz Walther Heinrich Wilhelm Ritz (22 February 1878 – 7 July 1909) was a Swiss theoretical physicist. He is most famous for his work with Johannes Rydberg on the Rydberg–Ritz combination principle. Ritz is also known for the variational method n ...

(1878–1909), Swiss theoretical physicist * Walther Schroth (1882–1944), German World War II general *

Walther Schwieger Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm Otto Walther Schwieger (7 April 1885 – 5 September 1917) was a German military officer. He was a U-boat commander in the Imperial German Navy (''Kaiserliche Marine'') during First World War. In 1915, he sank the pass ...

(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. George Walther Sr. (August 13, 1876 – April 10, 1961) was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, civic leader and the holder of over 100 patents for truck wheels, brake drums, fifth wheels, and landing gear/legs for the trucking indust ...

(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 Johann Gottfried Walther (18 September 1684 – 23 March 1748) was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era. Life and work Walther was born at Erfurt. Not only was his life almost exactly contempor ...

(1684–1748), German organist and composer * Johann Jakob Walther (composer) (1650–1704), German composer/violinist * 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 * Christoph Theodosius Walther (1699–1741), German missionary

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