Walter Cecil Crawley FES (29 March 1880 – 11 October 1940) was a British male tennis player[3] and entomologist.

[1] Crawley was born on 29 March 1880 and educated at St John's School, Leatherhead.

[5] In 1901 he played his first tournament at the Yorkshire Championships where he lost in round three to Ernest Watson.

[1] The same year he won the inaugural Dieppe International Championship men's singles title.

In the doubles, he reached the quarterfinals with Kenneth Powell in which they lost to compatriots and eventual Olympic champions George Hillyard and Reginald Doherty.