Walton family

This article is about the Walton family, founders of Walmart. For the television program, see The Waltons.

Walton
Business family
Sam Walton, founder of Walmart
EtymologyWalton (surname); for "a place with the suffix tun ('town, farm, hamlet') and one of the prefixes wald ('a wood'), walesc ('foreigner') or walh ('farm worker')"
FounderSam Walton (1918–1992)
DistinctionsWealthiest family in the world (US$432 billion; 2024)
WebsiteWaltonFamilyFoundation.org

The Walton family is an American family whose collective fortune derived from Walmart which in-turn makes them the second-richest family in the world.

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