# Waller (surname)

Waller is a surname mainly of Old English origin, with several possible etymologies. Notable people with this name include:

## Arts and entertainment
### Music

* Charlie Waller (American musician) (1935–2004), American bluegrass musician
* Charlie Waller (British musician) (born 1980), British rock musician
* Fats Waller, jazz musician
* Gordon Waller (1945–2009), Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist, one half of the duo Peter and Gordon
* Rik Waller, British singer

### Other media

* Anthony Waller (born 1959), film director
* Carroll Waller (1927–2014), American preservationist and writer
* Douglas C. Waller (born 1949), American writer
* Edmund Waller (1606–1687), English poet and politician
* Emma Waller (1815–1899), English actress, famous in America
* Farida Waller (born 1993), Thai actress and model
* Fred Waller, (1886–1954), inventor of Cinerama
* Judith C. Waller (1889–1973), American radio pioneer
* Lewis Waller (1860–1915), English actor
* Mary Lemon Waller (1851–1931), English portrait painter
* Robert James Waller (1939–2017), American author
* Tom Waller (born 1974), Thai film director and producer
* Vincent Waller, American animator, showrunner of SpongeBob SquarePants since 2015

## Government and politics

* Benjamin Waller, Williamsburg, Virginia attorney and judge
* Bill Waller, American politician, governor of Mississippi
* Christopher Waller, American economist
* Edwin Waller, American statesman
* Gary Waller (1945–2017), British politician
* George Mark Waller, Lord Justice of Appeal, Court of Appeal of England and Wales
* George Platt Waller, American diplomat
* John L. Waller, lawyer, journalist, publisher and U.S. Counsel to Madagascar
* Keith Waller (1914–1992), Australian public servant and diplomat
* Mark Waller (judge), British judge
* Robert Waller (pundit), British elections expert
* William L. Waller, Jr., American chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court

## Military

* Albert Gregory Waller (1890–1967), Irish military pilot serving the British
* Hardress Waller (c. 1604–1666), English parliamentarian in the English Civil War, convicted of the regicide of King Charles I
* Hector Waller, officer in the Royal Australian Navy
* Littleton Waller, officer in the United States Marine Corps
* William Waller (c. 1597–1668), English Parliamentary general during the English Civil War
* William Francis Frederick Waller (1839–1885), British soldier and a recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Sir Richard Waller (c. 1395–c. 1462), English soldier and official noted for capturing the Duke of Orleans, the French commander at the Battle of Agincourt

## Religion

* Charles Henry Waller (1840–1910), Church of England theologian
* J. G. Waller, Canadian Anglican missionary in Japan
* John Waller (preacher) (1741–1802), Baptist preacher in Virginia, South Carolina and Kentucky

## Science and academia

* Alfred Rayney Waller (1867–1922), British journalist, translator and editor
* Augustus Volney Waller (1816–1870), British neurophysiologist
* Augustus Desiré Waller (1856–1922), scientist and son of Augustus Volney Waller
* Carroll Waller (1927–2014), American preservationist and writer
* Edward Waller (1803–1873), Irish zoologist
* Erik Waller (collector) (1875–1955), Swedish surgeon and book collector
* Ivar Waller (1898–1991), physicist

## Sports

* Alex Waller (born 1990), English rugby union player
* Charlie Waller (American football) (1921–2009), American football coach
* Chris Waller (gymnast) (born 1968), American gymnast
* Chris Waller (cricketer) (born 1948), English cricketer
* Darren Waller (born 1992), American football player
* Dwight Waller, American professional basketball player
* Erik Waller (sailor) (1887–1958), Swedish sailor who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
* Ethan Waller (born 1992), English rugby union player
* Phil Waller (rugby union), Wales and British Lions rugby player
* Ruth Waller, English athlete
* Tye Waller (born 1957), American baseball player
* Wilf Waller (1877-?), South African footballer with Bolton Wanderers, Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton

## Other fields

* Waller family (Kent)
* Anne Waller, Lady Waller (died 1661 or 1662), English diarist
* Frederick S. Waller (1822-1905), resident architect of Gloucester Cathedral
* Mathew Waller (1617–1680), Early New England settler

## Fictional

* Amanda Waller, DC Comics character
* The Waller family (Ray, Eve, Izzy and Elliot) from Night Swim
* Toby Waller, character of Roots known as Kunta Kinte