Famous People with Name Walter

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walter Adolph Georg Gropius: a German architect and founder of Bauhaus. Along with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier,

Walter Benjamin            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walter Benjamin: German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem.

Walter Scheel            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walter Scheel: German politician (FDP)Scheel was born in Solingen. During World War II, he served in the Luftwaffe, the last years of the war as a Radar operator on a Me 110 night fighter.

Walter Ulbricht            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walter Ulbricht: German communist politician. As First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971, he played a leading role in the early development and establishment of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).

Walter Karl Koch            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Walter Karl Koch: German surgeon best known for the discovery of Koch's triangle, a triangular shaped area in the right atrium of the heart, and of Tawara's node, the atrioventricular node which is the beginning of the auricular-ventricular bundle.

Ottmar Walter            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Ottmar Walter: a former German footballer.He played together with his brother, Fritz Walter, at the club 1. FC Kaiserslautern. They also played together for the Germany national football team in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. Ottmar scored 4 goals in the tournament as West Germany won their first ever World Cup title. In total, Ottmar earned 21 caps and scored 10 goals for Germany.

Denis Walter            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Denis Walter: is an Australian media personality and singer.Throughout his music career Walter has recorded 14 albums. For many years until his retirement in November 2008, Walter was the host of the evening news in the regional areas of Victoria for WIN TV (a regional affiliate of the Nine Network). Walter has also hosted nightly drawings of Keno lotteries.

Norbert Walter            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Norbert Walter: is a German professional volleyball player. His position on the field is middle blocker. He is currently playing for Italian side Canadiens Mantova. He's playing for his national team since 1999.

Annika Walter            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Annika Walter: is a German diver.

Horst Walter            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Horst Walter: is a contemporary German artist.[1] he grew up in the western part of the divided Berlin. He produces drawings and modern sculptures. In divided Berlin he potested against the Berlin Wall. After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 he tried to remind the German public to keep parts of the Berlin Wall as a monument of memorial. To do this he started numberless performances in the so called "No Man's Land" between the Potsdamer Platz and the Reichstag building.