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.^[1] People with the name include:

A

• Adam Walton (b. 1971), British radio DJ
• 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 (b. 1952), 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