| Code: | Football |
| Sport: | Gaelic football |
| Joe Waldron | |
| Irish: | Seosamh de Bhaldraithe |
| County: | Galway |
| Province: | Connacht |
| Club: | Milltown |
| Cposition: | Corner-back |
| Clyears: | 1968-1984 |
| Clapps(Points): | 37 Apps. (2-6) |
| Clcounty: | 2 |
| Colleges: | UCD |
| Sig: | 1 |
| Counties: | Galway |
| Icposition: | Left corner-back |
| Icyears: | 1970s |
| Icprovince: | 2 |
| Birth Place: | Milltown, County Galway |
Joe Waldron (born 1951 in Milltown, County Galway) is an Irish former sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local club Milltown and was a member of the Galway senior inter-county team in the 1970s.
In 1972, Waldron captained Galway to win their first All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship when they defeated Kerry in the final. He lost two consecutive All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Finals with Galway after being beaten by Cork in 1973 and Dublin the following year in 1974. He was a member of both of Milltown's Galway Senior Football Championship winning teams in 1971 and 1981, playing alongside his brother John in both finals.[1]
Waldron was also a part of the successful UCD team of the early 1970s, winning a Sigerson Cup in 1972/73. This was the same all-conquering University team that won the Dublin SFC, Leinster Club SFC & All-Ireland Club SFC titles in the 1973/74 season.
On St. Patrick's Day, 1973, Waldron played on the Combined Universities football team that defeated his own native Connacht in the Railway Cup final, the only Universities team to win the Inter-Provincial Championship in football or hurling.
Waldron served as a selector for the Galway senior team in the early 1990s under John Tobin's management term.