title: Galt (surname)
text: # Galt (surname)
  
  Galt is the surname of:
  
  ## People
  
  * Alexander Tilloch Galt (1817–1893), politician and a major figure in the Canadian Confederation
  * Edith Galt (1872–1961), second wife of President Woodrow Wilson
  * Elliott Torrance Galt (1850–1928), Canadian businessman and developer
  * Jimmy Galt (1885–1935), Scottish footballer
  * John Galt (novelist) (1779–1839), Scottish writer, entrepreneur, political commentator and founder of Guelph, Ontario
  * Malcolm Patrick Galt (1929-2022), Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese of Bridgetown, Barbados
  * Maud Galt (c.1620–c.1670), lesbian accused of witchcraft in Scotland
  * Thomas Galt (1805–1857), American Presbyterian minister, abolitionist and a leader of the Illinois Anti-Slavery Society
  * William Wylie Galt (1919-1945), United States Army officer and recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor
  * William W. Galt (Minnesota politician) (1854-1945), American farmer and politician
  * Tögöldur Galt (born 1995), Mongolian footballer
  * Wylie Galt (born 1984), American politician
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * John Galt, hero of Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged
  * Arthur Galt, an antagonist from the 1982 action film First Blood
  