Walter Smith (1948–2021) was a player and manager in the Scottish Football Association.

Walter Smith may also refer to:

Politicians

• Walter I. Smith (1862–1922), American politician, U.S. Representative from Iowa and U.S. federal judge
• Walter Bedell Smith (1895–1961), American Army general, diplomat, and politician
• Walter Smith (British politician) (1872–1942), Member of Parliament for Wellingborough, 1918–1922, and Norwich, 1923–1924 and 1929–1931
• Walter Bernard Smith (1912–1987), Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons
• Walter L. Smith Jr. (1917–1994), American politician in New Jersey

Sports

• Walter Smith (American football) (1875–1955), American football player and military officer
• Red Smith (sportswriter) (Walter Wellesley Smith, 1905–1982), American sportswriter
• Walter Parry Haskett Smith (1859–1946), British rock climber
• Walter Smith (footballer, born 1884) (1884–1972), English football player
• Walter Smith (winger) (fl. 1891–1893), English football player
• Walter Smith (cricketer) (1913–2007), English cricketer
• Wally Smith (footballer, born 1885) (1885–?), English footballer

Others

• Walter Smith (art educator) (1836–1886), British art educator and author of drawing books and books on industrial art education
• Walter Smith (land surveyor) (1920–2018), first civilian director of the Ordnance Survey
• Walter B. Smith (Medal of Honor) (1827–?), American sailor and Medal of Honor recipient
• Walter Campbell Smith (1887–1988), British mineralogist and petrologist
• Walter Chalmers Smith (1824–1908), British poet and minister of the Free Church of Scotland
• Wally Smith (mathematician) (1926-2023), American mathematician
• Walter Mackersie Smith (1842–1906), British engineer
• Walter Mickle Smith (1867–1953), American civil engineer
• Walter Scott Smith Jr. (born 1940), United States federal judge
• Walter Smith, pseudonym of spammer Davis Wolfgang Hawke
• Walter Smith (bushman) (1898–1990), Australian bushman
• Walter Edmond Smith (1895–1976), Australian Army officer and industrialist
• Walter Smith III (born 1980), American jazz saxophonist and composer
• Walter Whately Smith (1892–1947), British parapsychologist
• Walter L. Smith (scholar) (1935–2021) , president emeritus of Florida A&M University
• Walter H. F. Smith, geophysicist
• J. Walter Smith (1869-1931) , editor of the American edition of The Strand Magazine

See also

• Walter Smith, a non-playable character of Ninja Gaiden
• Wally Smith (disambiguation)
• John Walter Smith (1845–1925), politician in Maryland
• Walter E. Smithe, Illinois-based furniture company