Kameshwar C. Wali (October 15, 1927 – January 14, 2022) was an Indian-born American theoretical physicist who was the Distinguished Research Professor of Physics Emeritus at Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences.

He was a specialist in high energy physics, particularly symmetries and dynamics of elementary particles, and the author of Chandra: A Biography of S. Chandrasekhar and Cremona Violins: a physicist's quest for the secrets of Stradivari.

[1] In 1944 Wali enrolled at the Raja Lakhamagouda Science Institute in Belgaum, newly founded by the Karnatak Lingayat Education Society (KLES) and inaugurated by the Sir C.V. Raman.

[1] In 1955, Wali travelled to the United States to join the PhD program in physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

His advisor and mentor was Robert G. Sachs, later the associate director of the high-energy physics division at the Argonne National Laboratory.

[5] In 1969, Wali joined the faculty of the Syracuse University physics department as full professor, a position he held until his retirement in 1998.

[36] His other books include Cremona Violins: A Physicist's Quest for Secrets of Stradivari (ISBN 978-9812791108) and Satyendra Nath Bose—His Life and Times: Selected Works.