Walter Peter Steffen (October 9, 1886 – March 9, 1937) was an American college football player and coach, lawyer, politician, and judge.

Steffen graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1912 and was admitted to the Illinois state bar the same year.

He served as assistant United States Attorney under James Herbert Wilkerson and then as an alderman on the Chicago City Council, representing the 23rd Ward.

[1] He had been elected to fill the seat left vacant earlier that year after the resignation of John Kjellander.

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