Walter Simpson Dickey (June 26, 1862 – January 22, 1931) was a Canadian-born newspaper publisher, politician, and industrialist in Kansas City, Missouri.

Dickey was born in Toronto on June 26, 1862, the oldest of 11 children, and moved to Kansas City in 1885.

As municipalities developed underground sewage infrastructures, the company supplied clay pipes to serve that purpose.

[1] He owned the Kansas City Missouri River Navigation Company for river barges between Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri until selling the entire fleet to the United States Army during World War I.

[1] He died at his home in the Rockhill neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri on January 22, 1931, aged 68.