Waldo (given name)

• Abbot Waldo of Reichenau, advisor of Charlemagne
• Waldo Colburn, American politician
• Waldo A. Evans, American naval captain and military governor
• Waldo Frank, American novelist, historian, and critic
• Waldo E. Harder, president of Grace University
• M. Waldo Hatler, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
• Waldo Hutchins, U.S. Congressman
• Waldo P. Johnson, U.S. senator and Confederate congressman
• Waldo Kantor, Argentine volleyball player
• Waldo K. Lyon, U.S. Navy physicist
• Waldo Machado , Brazilian former footballer
• Waldo McBurney, credited as "America's Oldest Worker"
• Waldo Ponce, Chilean football player
• Waldo , Finnish eurodance musician
• Waldo de los Ríos, Argentine composer and conductor
• Waldo Salt, American screenwriter
• Waldo E. Sexton, American businessman
• Waldo Williams, Welsh language poet

  Fictional characters

• Waldo, central character in the Where's Wally? children's book series and television show
• Waldo, a fictional character in "The Waldo Moment", an episode in the Black Mirror series
• "Waldo", nickname of the tourist guy in a 9/11 attack hoax photograph
• Waldo Faldo, a character from the television series Family Matters
• Waldo Farthingwaite-Jones, title character of "Waldo" by Robert A. Heinlein
• Waldo Jeffers, lovesick protagonist of The Velvet Underground song, The Gift
• Waldo Jones, disabled inventor in Robert A. Heinlein's 1942 short story Waldo
• Waldo Pepper, title character of the film The Great Waldo Pepper
• Waldo Franz Schaeffer, a minor supporting character from the French animated television series Code Lyoko and its cancelled 2013 live-action/CGI show
• Uncle Waldo, the drunken goose from the 1970 Disney animated film The Aristocats, in which he is the uncle of the British-like identical twin sisters Abigail and Amelia