Willis (given name)
Willis is a masculine given name which may refer to the following people:
Men
- Willis Barnstone, American poet and translator
- Willis Bouchey, American actor
- Willis B. Burns, American businessman and politician
- Willis Carrier, American engineer and inventor, best known for inventing modern air conditioning
- Willis Carto, American far right activist and Holocaust denier
- Willis Conover, jazz producer and longtime broadcaster on the Voice of America
- Willis Gibson, American Tetris player
- Willis Goldbeck, American screenwriter and film director
- Willis Hall, English playwright and radio and television writer
- Willis Harman, American engineer, social scientist, academic, futurist and writer
- Willis A. Hawkins, justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
- Willis Nichols Hawley, American soldier
- Willis Hudlin, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley, British technologist and electrical engineer
- Willis Jackson (saxophonist), American jazz tenor saxophonist
- Willis Linn Jepson, American botanist
- Willis Lamb, American physicist and Nobel laureate
- Willis Augustus Lee, vice-admiral of the United States Navy and Olympic Games sport shooter
- Willis McGahee, National Football League running back
- Willis H. O'Brien, Irish-American pioneering motion picture special effects artist
- Willis Peguese, American football player
- Willis Polk, American architect
- Willis Reed, American basketball player, coach and general manager
- Willis Robards, American actor, film director, and film producer
- Willis H. Stephens, American politician
- Willis Stephens, Jr., American politician, son of the above
- Willis Van Devanter, an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
- Willis Ward, African-American track and field athlete and football player, lawyer and judge
Women
- Willis Marie Van Schaack, birth name of Lili St. Cyr, American burlesque dancer and stripper