Willis (given name)

Willis is a masculine given name which may refer to:

People:

• Willis Bouchey (1907–1977), American actor
• Willis Carrier (1876–1950), American engineer and inventor, best known for inventing modern air conditioning
• Willis Carto (born 1926), American far right activist and Holocaust denier
• Willis Conover (1920–1996), jazz producer and longtime broadcaster on the Voice of America
• Willis Van Devanter (1859–1941), an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Willis Goldbeck (1898–1979), American screenwriter and film director
• Willis Hall (1929–2005), English playwright and radio and television writer
• Willis Harman (1918–1997), American engineer, social scientist, academic, futurist and writer
• Willis Hudlin (1906–2002), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley (1904–1970), British technologist and electrical engineer
• Willis Jackson (saxophonist) (1932–1987), American jazz tenor saxophonist
• Willis Linn Jepson (1867–1946), American botanist
• Willis Lamb (1913–2008), American physicist and Nobel laureate
• Willis Augustus Lee (1888–1945), vice-admiral of the United States Navy and Olympic Games sport shooter
• Willis McGahee (born 1981), National Football League running back
• Willis O'Brien (1886–1962), Irish American pioneering motion picture special effects artist
• Willis Peguese (born 1966), American football player
• Willis Polk (1867–1924), American architect
• Willis Reed (born 1942), American retired basketball player, coach and general manager
• Willis H. Stephens, Sr. (born 1925), American politician
• Willis Stephens, Jr. (born 1955), American politician, son of the above
• Willis Ward (1912-1983?), African-American track and field athlete and football player, lawyer and judge

Fictional characters:

• Willis Jackson (character), in the 1970s-1980s U.S. TV sitcom Diff'rent Strokes
• Willis (Digimon), in the anime series
• Willis the Bouncer, a Martian in the novel Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein