Henriette Walter (b. Henriette Saada, 5 March 1929 in Sfax, Tunisia) is a French linguist, emeritus professor of French at the University of Rennes 2, and director of the Phonology Laboratory at the École pratique des hautes études at the Sorbonne.

She is quoted as saying: "As a little girl, I liked the idea that an object could have multiple names, that emotions could be expressed in different ways."

She was able to convince her parents to let her go to study English at the Sorbonne, where she performed brilliantly in the International Phonetic Association examination.

[3] She married Gérard Walter, who worked with her on multiple publications and with whom she had two children, Isabelle and Éric.

She became his closest collaborator and organized a workshop at the École pratique des hautes études from 1966 onwards.