# Walton (surname)

Walton is a toponymic surname or placename of Anglo-Saxon origins. It derives from a place with the suffix tun ('town, farm, hamlet') and one of the prefixes wald ('a wood'), walesc ('foreigner') or walh ('farm worker'). First recorded as a surname in Oxfordshire in the person of Odo de Wolton on the Hundred Rolls in 1273. People with the name include:
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## A

* Adam Walton (b. 1971), British radio DJ
* Alan Walton (1936–2015), British-born businessman
* Albert D. Walton (1886–1951), American Attorney
* Alfred Walton (1816–1883), British radical politician
* Alice Walton (b. 1949), American heiress, daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton
* Alice Walton (1865-1954), American classicist and archaeologist
* Alvin Walton (b. 1964), American football player
* Amy Catherine Walton (1849–1939), British author
* Amy and Emily Walton (b. 2000), twins appearing on the British soap Coronation Street
* Ann Walton Kroenke, American Walmart heiress, wife of Stan Kroenke
* Anthony Walton (politician) (born 1962), former New Zealand political party president
* Anthony Walton (poet) (born 1960), American poet and writer
* Asmaa Walton, American artist and art educator

## B

* Bernard Walton (1917–1972), a British classical clarinetist
* Bill Walton (1952–2024), American basketball player and sportscaster
* Billy Walton (1871–1963), English footballer
* Brandon Walton (born 1998), American football player
* Brian Walton (bishop) (1600–1661), English cleric and scholar
* Brian Walton (cyclist) (b. 1965), Canadian track cyclist
* Bruce Walton (1951-2019), American football player
* Bruce Walton (b. 1962), American baseball player
* Bruce Alan Walton (b. 1960), alias "Branton", American author
* Bud Walton (James Lawrence Walton, 1921–1995), American retailer, co-founder of Walmart
* Bryce Walton (1918–1988), American pulp fiction writer

## C

* Cecile Walton (1891–1956), Scottish artist
* Cedar Walton (1934–2013), American pianist
* Chadwick Walton, Jamaican cricketer
* Charles Walton, (1921-2011), American Inventor
* Chelsea Walton (b. 1983), African-American mathematician
* Chris Walton (1933–2006), English cricketer
* Christian Walton (b. 1995), English footballer
* Christy Walton, American Walmart heiress
* Clare Walton, British senior Royal Air Force officer
* Clarence C. Walton, American academic administrator, The Catholic University of America
* Constance Walton (1919-2017), American composer
* Craig Walton (b. 1975), Australian Olympic athlete

## D

* Danny Walton (1947–2017), American baseball player
* David Walton (disambiguation)
* Dean Walton, a fictional character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
* Donovan Walton (b. 1994), American baseball player
* Dorothy Walton (1909–1981), Canadian badminton player
* Douglas Walton (disambiguation)
* Dwight Walton (b. 1965), Canadian basketball player

## E

* Edward Arthur Walton (1860–1922), Scottish artist
* Elijah Walton (1832–1880), English artist
* Ernest Walton (1903–1995), Irish physicist and Nobel Prize winner
* Evangeline Walton (1907–1996), American author
* Emma Walton (1962–present), British children's book author

## F

* Fred Walton (1865–1936), English stage actor
* Frederick Walton (1834–1928) Industrialist and inventor of Linoleum
* Frederick Walton (engineer) (1840–1925) British railway engineer

## G

* Genevieve M. Walton (1857–1932), American librarian
* Geoffrey Walton (1934–2020), British archdeacon
* George Walton (Royal Navy), British admiral
* George Walton (1749/50–1804), American politician
* George Walton (Manitoba politician) (died 1925), Canadian politician
* George Walton (footballer) (born 1911, date of death unknown), English footballer
* Gordon Walton (b. 1956), American computer game developer
* Col. Granville Walton, The Scout Association Scouting notable, awardee of the Bronze Wolf in 1955

## H

* Harold Walton (cricketer) (1874–1960), New Zealand cricketer
* Helen Walton (1919–2007), American heiress, widow of Walmart founder Sam Walton
* Henry Walton (disambiguation)

## I

* India Walton (b. 1982), mayor-elect of Buffalo, New York
* Izaak Walton (1593–1683), English writer

## J

* Javon Walton, American child actor
* Jerome Walton (b. 1965), American baseball player
* Jess Walton (b. 1949), American actress
* Jim Walton (b. 1948), American banker and Walmart heir
* Jim Walton (journalist) (b. 1958), American journalist, president of CNN Worldwide
* Jo Walton (b. 1964), British-born fantasy and science fiction writer
* Joe Walton (1935–2021), American football coach
* Joseph Walton (footballer), English footballer
* John Walton (disambiguation):
** John Walton (1738-1783), American politician, Georgia delegate to the Continental Congress
** John C. Walton (1881–1949), American politician, Governor of Oklahoma
** John H. Walton (b. 1952), American Old Testament scholar
** John T. Walton (1946–2005), American businessman and Walmart heir
** John Walton (actor), Australian actor
** John Ike Walton, American musician and member of 1960s rock group 13th Floor Elevators
* Johnathan Walton (b. 1974), Jamaican-born television reporter
* Joseph Walton (convict) (b. 1830, date of death unknown), Canadian-born convict transported to Western Australia

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* Kendall Walton, American philosopher and academic
* Kent Walton (1917–2003), British television sports commentator
* Kevin Walton (1918-2009), Antarctic explorer
* Krista S. Walton, American chemical engineer

## L

* Lee Walton American artist
* Lisa Walton (b. 1975), New Zealand field hockey player
* Luke Walton (b. 1980), American basketball player

## M

* Mark Walton (American football) (b. 1997), American football player
* Mary Walton (1827–1894), American inventor
* Mike Walton (b. 1945), Canadian hockey player
* Marcus Walton (b. 1989), English Film Producer

## N

* Nancy Walton Laurie, American Walmart heiress
* Nancy Bird-Walton (1915-2009), Australian aviator

## O

* Mrs O. F. Walton (Amy Catherine Walton, 1849–1939), British author

## P

* Percy Levar Walton, American convicted murderer
* Peter Walton (rugby union), Scottish rugby player and coach
* Peter Walton (referee), English football referee
* Philip Walton (b. 1962), Irish golfer

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* Rachel Mellon Walton (1899–2006), American philanthropist
* Reggie Walton (b. 1949), American District Judge
* Rhett Walton, Australian actor
* Richard J. Walton, American politician and academic
* Rob Walton (ice hockey) (1949–2018), Canadian ice hockey player
* S. Robson Walton (b. 1945), American lawyer and Walmart heir
* Roy Walton (1932–2020), British card magician

## S

* Sam Walton (1918–1992), American retailer, founder of Walmart
* Sam Walton (American football) (1943-2002), American football player
* Sarah Stokes Walton (1844–1899), American poet and artist
* Simon Walton (born 1987), English football player
* Sophie Walton (born 1989), English women's footballer
* Wayne Walton (1943-2020), American Master Carpenter
* Susana Walton (1926–2010), widow of William Walton

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* Tasma Walton (b. 1974), Australian actress
* Thomas Otto Walton, president of Texas A&M University 1925-1943
* Timothy Walton (disambiguation)
* Todd Walton, (b. 1949), American writer
* Tony Walton (1934–2022), English set and costume designer and director
* Travis Walton (b. 1953), American alien abductee

## W

* William Walton (disambiguation), several people
* William Walton (merchant) (1706–1768), American merchant and politician in New York
* William Walton (1902–1983), British composer
* William Walton (1909/1910-1994) American painter and former chairman, U.S. Commission on Fine Arts

## Other

* Walton family, connected to Walmart
* The Waltons, American television series
* The Walton sextuplets, the world's first all-female surviving sextuplets, born in 1983