Walker
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A walker is a tool to help the infirm to get around. See: walker (tool)
Walker may mean "someone who walks". See: walking and pedestrian.
Walker may refer to more than one place:
- In England:
- Walker, a village now within Newcastle upon Tyne in England, the name derived from Old English Wall-kjer, "Wall marsh", the marsh beside Hadrian's Wall
- In the United States:
Walker is also a common English surname. The name comes from the medieval profession of a ‘walker’- a person who trod on woollen clothes in a bath of urine in order to wash them. For people with the surname Walker see people named Walker.
Walker may also refer to:
- Walker, a 1987 motion picture about William Walker
- Walker, Texas Ranger, U.S. television program
- Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker, a metric used in cosmology
- Hiram Walker, a Canadian distillery
- Jed Walker, a comic book character
- Junior Walker and the All Stars, a musical group
- Riddley Walker, a 1980 novel by Russell Hoban
- Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool, UK
- Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Walker Lake (multiple locations)
- Walker Pass, in California, USA
- Walker Percy, U.S. author
- Walker River (multiple locations)
- Walker tariff, an 1846 U.S. tariff