Dr Walter Mykura FRSE FGS (1926–1988) was a Czech-born geologist working in Britain.
Known as Wally Mykura he served as President of the Edinburgh Geological Society 1975 to 1977.
He was born in Falkenau, Bohemia, in what was then Czechoslovakia (now Sokolov, Czech Republic) in 1926, the son of Franz Mykura.
In 1976 his alma mater awarded him an honorary doctorate (DSc).
He died suddenly as the result of being struck by a car on 13 May 1988 in Edinburgh.