Waldo (given name)

Waldo is a masculine given name. It derives from the Anglo-Saxon name Waltheof. It may refer to:

People

 * Waldo of Reichenau (740–814), Carolingian abbot and bishop
 * Waldo Colburn (1824–1885), American politician
 * Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American writer and philosopher
 * Waldo A. Evans (1869–1936), American naval captain and military governor
 * Waldo Frank (1889–1967), American novelist, historian, and critic
 * Waldo Grant (1946–2023), American serial killer
 * Waldo E. Harder (1918–1976), president of Grace University
 * M. Waldo Hatler (1894–1967), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
 * Waldo Hutchins (1822–1891), U.S. Congressman
 * Waldo P. Johnson (1817–1885), U.S. senator and Confederate congressman
 * Waldo Kantor (born 1960), Argentine volleyball player
 * Waldo K. Lyon (1914–1998), U.S. Navy physicist
 * Waldo Machado (1934–2019), Brazilian former footballer
 * Waldo McBurney (1902–2009), credited as "America's Oldest Worker"
 * Waldo Ponce, Chilean football player
 * Waldo de los Ríos (1934–1977), Argentine composer and conductor
 * Waldo Salt (1914–1987), American screenwriter
 * Waldo E. Sexton (1885–1967), American businessman
 * Waldo Williams (1904–1971), Welsh language poet

Fictional characters

 * Waldo, a central character in the Where's Wally? children's book series and television show
 * Waldo, one of the Our Gang characters
 * Waldo, a supporting character in the AMC series Into the Badlands
 * "Waldo", nickname of the tourist guy in a 9/11 attack hoax photograph
 * Waldo Faldo, a character from the television series Family Matters
 * Waldo Farthingwaite-Jones, title character of "Waldo" (short story) by Robert A. Heinlein
 * Waldo Jeffers, protagonist of The Velvet Underground song "The Gift"
 * Waldo Jones, disabled inventor in Robert A. Heinlein's 1942 short story "Waldo"
 * Waldo Kitty, a feline parody of Walter Mitty, from the animated series The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty
 * Waldo Magoo, the nephew of Quincy Magoo, from the Mr. Magoo franchise
 * Waldo C. Graphic, a character from the theme park attraction Muppet*Vision 3D
 * Waldo Pepper, title character of the film The Great Waldo Pepper
 * Waldo Franz Schaeffer (more commonly known as Franz Hopper), a minor supporting character from the French animated television series Code Lyoko and its cancelled 2013 live-action/CGI show Code Lyoko: Evolution
 * Uncle Waldo, the drunken gander from the 1970 Disney animated film The Aristocats
 * Waldo, a Reptool in the television series Dinotrux
 * Waldo Emerson Bell is the central character in K. M. Alexander's Bell Forging Cycle.