Willis (given name)

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