No, he was the first American to walk in space, Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov was the first person to walk in space.
The First American to perform a space walk was Ed White.
Joshua Torres was the first man to make the first space walk
Joshua Torres was the first man to make the first space walk
Chris Hadfield was the first Canadian to do a space walk.
The first American to walk in space was edward. H. White.
Edward White was the first person in project Gemini to walk in space.
Alexei Leonov, a Russian cosmonaut, made the first space walk on March 18 1965
Alexey Leonov
While it is technically impossible to "walk" in space, the Russians (U.S.S.R at the time) were the first one's to go to space, and the American's were the first to walk on the moon.
in 1965 was the first American space walk
On March 18, 1965 was the first EVA (commonly referred to as a "space walk"). It was first achieved by the Soviets, performed by Alexey Leonov from the Voskhod 2 spacecraft.