Louise Aitken-Walker

{{Short description|British rally driver (born 1960)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}

{{Infobox WRC driver

|name = Louise Aitken-Walker
MBE

| image = Louise Aitken-Walker Race Retro 2023.jpg

| caption = Louise Aitken-Walker in 2023

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1960|1|21}}

|birth_place = Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland

|nationality = {{flagicon|GBR}} British

|Years = 1979 - 1991

|Co-driver = {{flagicon|UK}} Jan Williamson
{{flagicon|UK}} Ellen Morgan
{{flagicon|Sweden}} Tina Thörner

|Teams = Ford
Nissan
Opel
Vauxhall

|Races = 22

|Wins = 1

|Championships = 0

|Podiums = 0

|Stagewins = 0

|Points = 1

|First race = RAC Rally 1979

|Last race = RAC Rally 1991

}}

Louise Dunn Aitken-Walker MBE (born January 1960 in Duns, Berwickshire){{cite news|first=Dave|last=Low|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0057/|title=Louise Aitken-Walker world rally champion 1990|publisher=BBC Online|work=A Sporting Nation|accessdate=13 October 2007}} is a British rally and racing driver. Aitken-Walker entered competition in 1979 and finished 19th in her first Rally GB two years later. She contested the 1989 British Touring Car Championship in a Class C Vauxhall Astra finishing fifth in points, and in 1990 was the first ever Ladies World Champion, the pinnacle of a successful 14-year career. She was awarded the Segrave Trophy in 1990.{{cite web|url=http://www.royalautomobileclub.co.uk/archive/archive_navmain5.asp?previd=481&groupid=729&tabstyle=main&style=RED |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928131810/http://www.royalautomobileclub.co.uk/archive/archive_navmain5.asp?previd=481&groupid=729&tabstyle=main&style=RED |archivedate=28 September 2007 |title=Title - Segrave Trophy |publisher=Royal Automobile Club |accessdate=21 December 2016 |url-status=dead }} She retired in 1993 to have a family (son John and daughter Gina) and concentrate on her business affairs. She runs Aitken-Walker Cars, which specializes in quality used cars, with her husband Graham in the Scottish Borders.{{cite web|url=http://www.aitken-walkercars.co.uk/louise.html|title=Louise Aitken-Walker MBE, Rally Driver, Scotland UK|publisher=Aitken-Walker Cars|accessdate=21 December 2016|archive-date=10 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510065017/http://www.aitken-walkercars.co.uk/louise.html|url-status=dead}}

In September 2008, Aitken-Walker took part in the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally, a round of the Scottish Rally Championship centred in Perth in Scotland. A historic Talbot Sunbeam Lotus was her chosen car for the event. She was one of a number of ex-world and British champions to take part in the event in memory of McRae, who died in 2007.

Aitken-Walker was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.{{cite web|url=http://www.sshf.co.uk/inductees/a-f/louise-aitken-walker-mbe/|title=Louise Aitken-Walker, MBE|publisher=Scottish Sports Hall of Fame|accessdate=21 December 2016}}