Walton (surname)

Walton is a toponymic surname or placename of Anglo-Saxon origins. It derives from a place with the suffix tun ('town, farm, hamlet') and one of the prefixes wald ('a wood'), walesc ('foreigner') or walh ('farm worker'). First recorded as a surname in Oxfordshire in the person of Odo de Wolton on the Hundred Rolls in 1273. People with the name include:

A

 * Adam Walton (b. 1971), British radio DJ
 * Adam Walton (poker player), American low stakes poker player third in Main Event 2023
 * Alan Walton (1936–2015), British-born businessman
 * Albert D. Walton (1886–1951), American Attorney
 * Alfred Walton (1816–1883), British radical politician
 * Alice Walton (b. 1949), American heiress, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton
 * Alice Walton (1865-1954), American classicist and archaeologist
 * Alvin Walton (b. 1964), American football player
 * Amy Catherine Walton (1849–1939), British author
 * Amy and Emily Walton (b. 2000), twins appearing on the British soap Coronation Street
 * Ann Walton Kroenke, American Wal-Mart heiress, wife of Stan Kroenke
 * Anthony Walton (politician) (born 1962), former New Zealand political party president
 * Anthony Walton (poet) (born 1960), American poet and writer
 * Asmaa Walton, American artist and art educator

B

 * Bernard Walton (1917–1972), a British classical clarinetist
 * Bill Walton (1952–2024), American basketball player
 * Billy Walton (1871–1963), English footballer
 * Brandon Walton (born 1998), American football player
 * Brian Walton (bishop) (1600–1661), English cleric and scholar
 * Brian Walton (cyclist) (b. 1965), Canadian track cyclist
 * Bruce Walton (1951-2019), American football player
 * Bruce Walton (b. 1962), American baseball player
 * Bruce Alan Walton (b. 1960), alias "Branton," American author
 * Bryce Walton (1918–1988), American pulp fiction writer

C

 * Cecile Walton (1891–1956), Scottish artist
 * Cedar Walton (1934–2013), American pianist
 * Chadwick Walton, Jamaican cricketer
 * Chelsea Walton (b. 1983), African-American mathematician
 * Chris Walton (1933–2006), English cricketer
 * Christian Walton (b. 1995), English footballer
 * Christy Walton, American Wal-Mart heiress
 * Clare Walton, British senior Royal Air Force officer
 * Clarence C. Walton, American academic administrator, The Catholic University of America
 * Constance Walton (1919-2017), American composer
 * Craig Walton (b. 1975), Australian Olympic athlete

D

 * Danny Walton (1947–2017), American baseball player
 * David Walton (disambiguation)
 * Dean Walton, a fictional character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
 * Donovan Walton (b. 1994), American baseball player
 * Dorothy Walton (1909–1981), Canadian badminton player
 * Douglas Walton (disambiguation)
 * Dwight Walton (b. 1965), Canadian basketball player

E

 * Edward Arthur Walton (1860–1922), Scottish artist
 * Elijah Walton (1832–1880), English artist
 * Ernest Walton (1903–1995), Irish physicist and Nobel Prize winner
 * Evangeline Walton (1907–1996), American author
 * Emma Walton (1962–present), British children's book author

F

 * Fred Walton (1865–1936), English stage actor
 * Frederick Walton (1834–1928) Industrialist and inventor of Linoleum
 * Frederick Walton (engineer) (1840–1925) British railway engineer

G

 * Genevieve M. Walton (1857–1932), American librarian
 * Geoffrey Walton (1934–2020), British archdeacon
 * George Walton (Royal Navy), British admiral
 * George Walton (1749/50–1804), American politician
 * George Walton (Manitoba politician) (died 1925), Canadian politician
 * George Walton (footballer) (born 1911, date of death unknown), English footballer
 * Gordon Walton (b. 1956), American computer game developer
 * Col. Granville Walton, The Scout Association Scouting notable, awardee of the Bronze Wolf in 1955

H

 * Harold Walton (cricketer) (1874–1960), New Zealand cricketer
 * Helen Walton (1919–2007), American heiress, widow of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton
 * Henry Walton (disambiguation)

I

 * India Walton (b. 1982), mayor-elect of Buffalo, New York
 * Izaak Walton (1593–1683), English writer

J

 * James "Bud" Walton (1921–1995), American retailer, co-founder of Wal-Mart
 * Javon Walton, American child actor
 * Jerome Walton (b. 1965), American baseball player
 * Jess Walton (b. 1949), American actress
 * Jim Walton (b. 1948), American banker and Wal-Mart heir
 * Jim Walton (journalist) (b. 1958), American journalist, president of CNN Worldwide
 * Jo Walton (b. 1964), British-born fantasy and science fiction writer
 * Joe Walton (1935–2021), American football coach
 * Joseph Walton (footballer), English footballer
 * John Walton (disambiguation):
 * John Walton (1738-1783), American politician, Georgia delegate to the Continental Congress
 * John C. Walton (1881–1949), American politician, Governor of Oklahoma
 * John H. Walton (b. 1952), American Old Testament scholar
 * John T. Walton (1946–2005), American businessman and Wal-Mart heir
 * John Walton (actor), Australian actor
 * John Ike Walton, American musician and member of 1960s rock group 13th Floor Elevators
 * Johnathan Walton (b. 1974), Jamaican-born television reporter
 * Joseph Walton (convict) (b. 1830, date of death unknown), Canadian-born convict transported to Western Australia

K

 * Kendall Walton, American philosopher and academic
 * Kent Walton (1917–2003), British television sports commentator
 * Kevin Walton (1918-2009), Antarctic explorer
 * Krista S. Walton, American chemical engineer

L

 * Lee Walton American artist
 * Lisa Walton (b. 1975), New Zealand field hockey player
 * Luke Walton (b. 1980), American basketball player

M

 * Mark Walton (American football) (b. 1997), American football player
 * Mary Walton (1827–1894), American inventor
 * Mike Walton (b. 1945), Canadian hockey player
 * Marcus Walton (b. 1989), English Film Producer

N

 * Nancy Walton Laurie, American Wal-Mart heiress
 * Nancy Bird-Walton (1915-2009), Australian aviator

O

 * Mrs O. F. Walton (Amy Catherine Walton, 1849–1939), British author

P

 * Percy Levar Walton, American convicted murderer
 * Peter Walton (rugby player), Scottish rugby player and coach
 * Peter Walton (referee), English football referee
 * Philip Walton (b. 1962), Irish golfer

R

 * Rachel Mellon Walton (1899–2006), American philanthropist
 * Reggie Walton (b. 1949), American District Judge
 * Rhett Walton, Australian actor
 * Richard J. Walton, American politician and academic
 * Rob Walton (ice hockey) (1949–2018), Canadian ice hockey player
 * S. Robson Walton (b. 1945), American lawyer and Wal-Mart heir
 * Roy Walton (1932–2020), British card magician

S

 * Sam Walton (1918–1992), American retailer, founder of Wal-Mart
 * Sam Walton (American football) (1943-2002), American football player
 * Sarah Stokes Walton (1844–1899), American poet and artist
 * Simon Walton (born 1987), English football player
 * Sophie Walton (born 1989), English women's footballer
 * Wayne Walton (1943-2020), American Master Carpenter
 * Susana Walton (1926–2010), widow of William Walton

T

 * Tasma Walton (b. 1974), Australian actress
 * Thomas Otto Walton, president of Texas A&M University 1925-1943
 * Timothy Walton (disambiguation)
 * Todd Walton, (b. 1949), American writer
 * Tony Walton (1934–2022), English set and costume designer and director
 * Travis Walton (b. 1953), American alien abductee

W

 * William Walton (disambiguation), several people
 * William Walton (merchant) (1706–1768), American merchant and politician in New York
 * William Walton (1902–1983), British composer
 * William Walton (1909/1910-1994) American painter and former chairman, U.S. Commission on Fine Arts

Other

 * Walton family, connected to Wal-Mart
 * The Waltons, American television series
 * The Walton sextuplets, the world's first all-female surviving sextuplets, born in 1983