This time in our series First Names First we will have Walter! Below is a chronological list of some of them. Pick one name and then follow the Wikipedia link to read about these men, and to see what if anything they could contribute your life with. Give a couple of minutes of your life to this. Lives lived all have something to tell us – let them!
Walter Raleigh* soldier/ explorer/statesman - East Budleigh, Devon, England (1552 or 1554)
Walter Hoyt* founding settler of Norwalk, Connecticut/to America at age 10 – West Hatch, Somerset, England (1618)
Walter Charleton* natural philosopher/writer – Somerset, England (1619)
Walter Vincent* politician/MP – England (1631)
Sir Walter Scott* novelist/poet/historian – Edinburgh, Scotland (1771)
Walter Joseph Sendall* British colonial governor – England (1832)
Walter Kittredge* musician/songwriter – Merrimack, NH USA (1834)
Walter Cheesman* businessman – Hempstead Harbor, NY USA (1838)
Walter Runeberg* sculptor – Porvoo, Finland (1838)
Walter Pater* essayist/ literary and art critic – Stepney, London, England (1839)
Walter Stanley Haines* chemist/toxicologist – Chicago, IL USA (1850)
Walter Heimbürger* lawyer/politician – Helsinki, GD of Finland (1856)
Walter Chrysler* automobile pioneer – Wamego, KS USA (1875)
Walter Ewing* trap shooter/OG – Montreal, QC Canada (1878)
Walter Rudolf Hess* physiologist/N – Frauenfeld, Switzerland (1881)
Walter Huston* actor/ singer/father of John Huston – Toronto, ON Canada (1883)
Walter Baldwin* actor – Lima, OH USA (1889)
Walter Bothe* nuclear physicist/N – Oranienburg, German Empire (1891)
Walter Beech* early aviation entrepreneur/co-founder of the Beech Aircraft Company – Pulaski, TN USA (1891)
Walter Brennan* actor – Lynn, MA USA (1894)
Walter Jackson Freeman II* neurologist – Philadelphia, PA USA (1895)
Walter Pidgeon* actor – USA (1897)
Walter Houser Brattain* American physicist/N – Xiamen, Fujian, Qing Dynasty (1902)
Walter Orr Roberts* astronomer/ atmospheric physicist/ philanthropist – West Bridgewater, MA USA (1915)
Walter Cronkite* television journalist – St. Joseph, MO USA (1916)
Walter Bernstein* screenwriter/film producer – Brooklyn, NY USA (1919)
Walter Frederick Morrison* inventor of frisbee/OB – Richfield, UT USA (1920)
Walter Arlen* (b Aptowitzer) Austrian-American composer/to U.S. at age 18 – Vienna. Austria (1920)
Walter Matthau* actor – New York, NY USA (1920) pic
Walter Kohn* theoretical physicist/theoretical chemist/N – Vienna, Austria (1923)
Walter Mondale* politician – Ceylon, MN USA (1928)
Walter Bonatti* mountaineer/ journalist – Bergamo, Italy (1930)
Walter Gilbert* biochemist/ physicist/molecular biology pioneer/N – Boston, MA USA (1932)
Walter Moody* convicted&executed criminal – Rex, GA USA (1935)
Walter E. Williams* economist/commentator/academic – Philadelphia, PA USA (1936)
Walter Koenig* actor (Star Trek) – Chicago, IL USA (1936)
Walter Gretzky* telephone installer/hockey promoter/father of Wayne Gretzky – Canning, ON Canada (1938)
Walter Rodney* historian/academic/ political activist – Georgetown, British Guiana (1942)
Walter Smith* football player/manager – Lanark, Scotland (1948)
Walter Payton* American football running back – Columbia, MS USA (1954)
Walter Mayer* cross-country skier (Vasaloppet)/coach – Hüttau, Austria (1957)
Updated 11.9.2023 Tallinn