Major-General Walter Fane CB (1828–1885) was a British Indian Army officer who served in Central India on the North West Frontier as well as in China during the Opium Wars.

Fane raised a troop of irregular cavalry to fight in China made up of Indian volunteers and they went on to become Fane's Horse, a regiment that remains part of Pakistan's armed forces.

He served in the Punjab Irregular Cavalry on the North West frontier where they fought a number of engagements against the hill tribes.

Fane's horse fought in the engagements of Sinho, Chinkiawbaw, Pulli-chi-on as well as in the sacking of Peking under Fane's cousin Field Marshal Sir John Michel.

He married but had no children and he died aged 58 in Fulbeck, where is buried.