Famous People with Name Wally

Wally Masur            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Wally Masur: is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Australia.Masur began playing tennis at the age of 8. In 1980, he won the boy's doubles title at the Australian Open. In 1981, aged 18, he won the Australian Junior Championships. He turned professional in 1982.

Wally Bill Hedrick            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wally Bill Hedrick: was a seminal American artist in the 1950s California counterculture,[2] gallerist, and educator who came to prominence in the early 1960s. Hedrick’s contributions to art include pioneering artworks in psychedelic light art, mechanical kinetic sculpture, junk/assemblage sculpture, Pop Art, and (California) Funk Art. Later in his life, he was a recognized forerunner in Happenings, Conceptual Art, Bad Painting, Neo-Expressionism, and image appropriation. Hedrick was also a key figure in the first important public manifestation of the Beat Generation when he helped to organize the Six Gallery Reading, and created the first artistic denunciation of American foreign policy in Vietnam. Wally Hedrick was known as an “idea artist” long before the label “conceptual art” entered the art world, and experimented with innovative use of language in art, at times resorting to puns.[2]

Wally Grant            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wally Grant: is a retired ice hockey player. Grant helped the University of Michigan win the first Frozen Four NCAA ice hockey championship in 1948.

Wally Savor            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Wally Savor: is a retired Australian international soccer player who played professionally for Sydney Croatia. He also played for Sydney United.

Wally "Wait-awhile-Wal" Carr            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Wally "Wait-awhile-Wal" Carr: is a former boxer. An Aboriginal Australian. His first fight was in South Sydney Leagues Club in 1971 at the age of 17 and his last fight was in 1986 at the age of 32 when he announced his retirement after fighting Doug Sam at the Bruce Stadium in Canberr

Eddy 'Valencia' Wally            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Eddy 'Valencia' Wally: is a singer from Zelzate (East Flanders, Belgium), and is the self-proclaimed "Voice Of Europe". He is most known for his songs "Chérie", "Ik spring uit een vliegmachien" (I'll jump out of an aeroplane), and "Dans Mi Amor", and usually wears flashy, shiny outfits, characterized by camp and kitsch reminiscent of Liberace.[1]