Sir Walter Fred Bodmer (born 10 January 1936 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a German-born British human geneticist.In 1961 Bodmer joined Joshua Lederberg's laboratory in the Genetics Department of Stanford University, continuing his research on population genetics, using the computing facilities that Stanford could offer.In 1962 Walter Bodmer was appointed to the faculty at Stanford. He left Stanford University in 1970 to become the first Professor of Genetics at the University of Oxford.Bodmer developed models for population genetics and worked on the human leukocyte antigen system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human linkage studies.

 In 1985 he chaired a Royal Society committee which wrote The Bodmer Report; this has been credited with starting the movement for the public understanding of science.He won Royal Medal in 2013 for seminal contributions to population genetics, gene mapping and understanding of familial genetic disease.