Sports

• Walter Davis (rugby)
  Walter Davis (rugby)
  Walter Davis was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Davis, a prop and lock, claimed a three international rugby caps for Australia...
  
   an Australian rugby union player
• Walter Davis (footballer)
  Walter Davis (footballer)
  Walter Otto Davis was a Welsh professional footballer who played at centre forward for Millwall for ten years in the 1910s. He also made five appearances for the Welsh national team.-Football career:...
  
   (1888–1937), Millwall F.C. and Wales international footballer
• Walt Davis (born 1931), American basketball player and high-jumper
• Walter Davis (basketball)
  Walter Davis (basketball)
  Walter Paul Davis is a retired American basketball player. A 6'6" forward/guard, Davis spent 15 years in the National Basketball Association, spending the bulk of those years with the Phoenix Suns...
  
   (born 1954), American basketball player
• Walter Davis (athlete) (born 1979), triple-jumper
• Walter C. Davis
  Walter C. Davis
  Walter C. Steel Arm Davis was an American baseball player in the Negro Leagues from 1923 to 1935. He played for the Detroit Stars, Chicago American Giants, Nashville Elite Giants, and Brooklyn Eagles.-Death:Known to have a hot temper, Davis was shot and killed in a barroom brawl in Chicago in 1935....
  
   (1902–1935), Negro League baseball player.

Musicians and singers

• Walter Davis (blues)
  Walter Davis (blues)
  Walter Davis was an African American blues singer and pianist.Davis had a rich singing voice that was as expressive as the best of the Delta blues vocalists...
  
   (1912–1963), blues singer and pianist
• Walter Davis, Jr.
  Walter Davis, Jr.
  Walter Davis, Jr. was an American hard bop pianist.Born in Richmond, Virginia, Davis performed as a teenager with Babs Gonzales and his group Three Bips and a Bop. In the 1950s, Davis recorded with Melba Liston, Max Roach and played with Roach, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie...
  
   (1932–1990), jazz pianist

Other

• Walter Davis (Australian politician), former President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council
• Walter Davis (botanist)
  Walter Davis (botanist)
  Walter Davis was an English plant collector, who collected in South America for James Veitch & Sons of Chelsea, London.-Early life:Davis was born at Sarson Street, now part of Amport, near Andover, Hampshire...
  
   (1847–1930), Victorian plant collector
• Walter R. Davis
  Walter R. Davis
  Walter Royal Davis was a Texas oil tycoon and philanthropist originally from Elizabeth City, North Carolina. He was also an influential figure in state politics and higher education. Davis Library, the graduate library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since it opened in 1984, is...
  
  (1920-2008), Texas oil tycoon and N.C. philanthropist