Walter Gröbli (23 September 1852 – 26 June 1903) was a Swiss mathematician.

[1] Walter Gröbli was more interested in mathematics than in embroidery[2] and he studied from 1871 to 1875 at the Polytechnicum of Zürich under Hermann Schwarz and Heinrich Martin Weber.

The following six years, Gröbli was assistant of Frobenius in Polytechnicum of Zürich.

[4] Despite his mathematical talent he did not follow a research career, he was happy to be a schoolmaster.

He died with other three colleagues on a mountain accident climbing the Piz Blas.