Wally (given name)

Wally or Wallie is a given name, and a nickname for Wallace which ultimately means 'Wales' and Walter. It may refer to:

People

 * Wally Badarou (born 1955), French musician
 * Wally Bayola (born 1972), Filipino actor and comedian
 * Wallie Branston, Canadian pioneering race car driver in the 1940s and '50s
 * Wallace Smith Broecker (1931–2019), American geochemist
 * Wally Bruner (1931–1997), American journalist and game show host
 * Wally Butts (1905–1973), American football coach
 * Wally Chambers (1951–2019), American football player
 * Wallie Coetsee (born 1972), South African golfer
 * Wally Cox (1924–1973), American comedian and actor
 * W. A. Criswell (1909–2002), American pastor, author, and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention
 * Wally Dallenbach Jr. (born 1963), American race car driver
 * Wally Dallenbach Sr. (born 1936), American race car driver
 * Wally Downes (born 1961), English association footballer and coach
 * Wally Fawkes (1924–2023), British-Canadian jazz clarinettist and satirical cartoonist
 * Wally Feresten, American cue card handler
 * Wally Funk (born 1939), American aviator, oldest person to travel into space
 * Wally Garard (1916–2004), American football player
 * Wally George (1931–2003), American commentator born George Walter Pearch
 * Wally Gould (1938–2018), English footballer
 * Wally Green (1918–2007), English motorcycle speedway rider
 * Wally Hayward (1908–2006), South African ultra distance runner
 * Wallie Herzer (1885–1961), American composer of popular music, music publisher, and pianist
 * Wallie Abraham Hurwitz (1886–1958), American mathematician
 * Wally Kurth (born 1958), American soap opera actor
 * Wallie or Willie Lane (1883–1920), British jockey
 * Wally Lewis (born 1959) Australian rugby league footballer
 * Wally Moon (1930–2018) American baseball player
 * Wally Nanayakkara (1939-2003), Sri Lankan Sinhala cinema, TV, and theater actor
 * Wally Nightingale, (1956–1996), British guitarist and founder of the Sex Pistols
 * Wally Parks (1913–2007), one of the founders of the National Hot Rod Association
 * Wally Phillips (1925–2008), American radio personality
 * Wally Price (1926–2021), Australian rules footballer
 * Wally Prigg (1908–1980), Australian rugby league footballer
 * Wally Schirra (1923–2007), American astronaut
 * Wally Schlotter, Chairman of the San Diego Film Commission from 1978–1996
 * Wally Szczerbiak (born 1977), retired National Basketball Association player
 * Wally Whyton (1929–1997), British musician, songwriter and radio and TV personality
 * Wally Wingert (born 1961), American voice actor
 * Wally Wolf (1930–1997), American swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic champion
 * Wally Wolf (baseball) (1942–2020), American baseball player

Fictional characters

 * Wally Wackford, a character from Helluva Boss, voiced by Don Darryl Rivera
 * Wally Walrus, character from Woody Woodpecker
 * Wally Gator, an anthropomorphic alligator from The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series
 * Wally the Green Monster, the official mascot of the Boston Red Sox baseball team
 * Wally (Dilbert), a lazy engineer from the Dilbert comic strip
 * Wally (Pokémon), a character from the Pokémon video game series
 * Wally (Wallabies mascot)
 * Wally Cleaver, the older brother played by Tony Dow on the television series Leave it to Beaver
 * Wally West, third character to become the Flash in the DC Comics Universe
 * Character in the Where's Wally? series of books (known as Waldo in the United States)
 * The mascot of "Wally World" in National Lampoon's Vacation
 * Wallace "Wally" Fitzgerald McGillicutty, the polar bear from the webcomic Wally and Osborne, formerly known as On the Rocks
 * Wallabee "Wally" Beatles, a fictional character from Codename: Kids Next Door
 * Wally the Walrus, a recurring character from the Canadian television series PAW Patrol
 * Wally Warbles, a bird boss in the video game Cuphead
 * Wally the Great, a magician in The Wiggles Movie
 * WALL-E, a fictional robot tasked to clean up the Earth in the 2008 animated film, "WALL-E"
 * Wally B., a character in the 1984 short film The Adventures of André & Wally B.
 * Wally B. Feed, cartographer from the Monkey Island game series
 * Wally the Wizard, a Magician child from Marvel Comics.
 * Wally/Wolliriki, a character in Kikoriki, also known as GoGoRiki (United States).
 * Title character of opera La Wally (female; short for Walburga)