Walter Horace Bruford, FBA (14 July 1894 – 28 June 1988) was a British scholar of German literature.
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then at St. John's College, Cambridge, and the University of Zurich.
During World War I he served with the Royal Navy cryptographic intelligence division in Room 40 at the Admiralty.
He was seconded to the Foreign Office during World War II, 1939–1943, to work at Bletchley Park.
His elder daughter was the British potter Joan Brown, and his son was the folklorist Dr Alan Bruford.