Kenneth Marshall Walsh is an American former competition swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and former world record-holder. Walsh was born in Orange, New Jersey, and grew up in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He attended Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, where he swam for coach Charles McCaffree's Michigan State Spartans swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association competition from 1965 to 1967. During his three-year college career, he received twelve All-American honors, and won Big Ten Conference championships in the 100-meter freestyle, 200-meter freestyle, and 4x100-meter freestyle relay. As a college senior in 1967, he won the NCAA national championship in the 100-yard freestyle. Later that same year, he set a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle at the 1967 Pan American Games. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Walsh won two gold medals in relay events and a silver medal in individual competition. He won the first of his two gold medals by swimming the anchor leg for the winning U.S. team in the men's 4x100-meter freestyle relay, together with teammates Zac Zorn, Stephen Rerych and Mark Spitz. 

February 11th, 1945 in City of Orange Township (Age 79) as Kenneth Marshall Walsh