Neil Scott Walker (born June 25, 1976) is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in multiple events. He represented the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he won a bronze. He also twice won gold in the medley relay, after swimming in the preliminaries. At the 2000 Short Course Worlds in Athens, Greece, he set short course World Records in the 50 back, 100 back and 100 I.M..
Walker retired from swimming competitively after the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials and started a swim school with Olympian and former Longhorn teammate Ian Crocker and U.S. National Champion and former Longhorn teammate James Fike with locations in Austin and Dallas. He is currently the head coach of Rockwall Aquatics Center of Excellence (RACE) in Rockwall, Texas.
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—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)