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

• Wallie Branston, Canadian pioneering race car driver in the 1940s and '50s
• Wallace Smith Broecker (born 1931), American geochemist
• Wally Bruner (1931–1997), American journalist and game show host
• Wally Butts (1905–1973), American football coach
• Wally Chambers (born 1951), 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 George (1931–2003), American commentator born George Walter Pearch
• Wally Gould (1938–2018), English footballer
• Wally Green (born 1918), 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 (born 1930) American baseball player
• Wally Nightingale, (born 1956), 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 (born 1925), Australian rules footballer
• Wally Prigg (1908–1980), Australian rugby league footballer
• Wally Schirra (1923–2007), American astronaut
• Wally Szczerbiak (born 1977), retired National Basketball Association player
• Wally Wingert (born 1961), American voice actor

Fictional characters

• 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 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. Feed, cartographer from the Monkey Island game series

See also

• Wally (disambiguation)