Willy
Willy or Willie is a masculine, male given name, often a diminutive form of William or Wilhelm, and occasionally a nickname. It may refer to:
People
Given name or nickname
- Willie Allen (basketball), American basketball player and director of the Growing Power urban farming program
- Willie Allen (racing driver), American racing driver
- Willie Anderson (disambiguation)
- Willie Apiata, New Zealand Army soldier, the only recipient of the Victoria Cross for New Zealand
- Willie (footballer), Brazilian footballer Willie Hortencio Barbosa
- Willy Böckl, Austrian world champion figure skater
- Willy Bocklant, Belgian road racing cyclist
- Willy Bogner Sr., German Nordic skier
- Willy Bogner Jr., German fashion designer and alpine skier
- Willie Bosket, an American convicted murderer whose numerous crimes committed as a minor led to a change in New York state law
- Willy Brandt, 4th chancellor of West Germany, originally a pseudonym of Herbert Frahm
- Willie Brown (disambiguation)
- Willy Busch, German footballer
- Willy Caballero, Argentina football goalkeeper
- Willie Cauley-Stein, American basketball player
- Willy Chavarria, an American fashion designer
- Willy Claes, Belgian former politician and eighth Secretary General of NATO
- Willie Clancy (hurler), Irish hurler
- Willie Clancy (musician), Irish uilleann piper
- Willie Colón (musician), New York musician and social activist
- Willie Colon (American football), American football player
- Willy Cheruiyot Kipkirui, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Wee Willie Davis, American actor and professional wrestler
- Willie Davis (baseball), American baseball player
- Willie Davis (basketball), American basketball player
- Willie Davis (defensive end), American football player
- Willie Davis (wide receiver), American football player
- Willy De Clercq, Belgian politician, deputy prime minister and minister of finance
- Willie Dixon, American blues double-bassist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer
- Willie Drew, American football player
- Willy Eisenhart, American writer on art
- Willie Evans (disambiguation)
- Willie Christine King Farris, older sister of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Willy Fitz, Austrian football player and coach
- Willy Gamage, Sri Lankan politician
- Willie Gault, American football player and sprinter
- Willie Gay, American football player
- Willie Geist, American television personality
- Willie Stevenson Glanton, American politician
- Willy Goldberger, German-Spanish cinematographer
- Willie Green, American basketball player
- Willie Green (American football), American football player
- Willie Harris, American baseball player
- Willie Harvey Jr., American football player
- Willie Hector, American football player
- Willy van Hemert, Dutch actor, theatre and television director and songwriter
- Willie Hernández, Puerto Rican baseball pitcher
- Willy Hernangómez, Spanish basketball player
- Willy Hess (composer), Swiss musicologist, composer and Beethoven scholar
- Willy Hess (violinist), German violinist and violin teacher
- Willie Heston, American football player
- William Higinbotham, American physicist and anti-nuclear proliferation activist
- Willie Horton, an American convicted murderer whose crimes during a furlough were a significant issue in the 1988 US presidential campaign
- Willie Horton (baseball), American former baseball player
- Willy In 't Ven, Belgian former road racing cyclist
- Willie Ito, American animator
- Willy Jäggi, Swiss footballer
- Willy F. James Jr., African-American United States Army soldier posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
- Willie Johnson (disambiguation)
- Willie Jones (disambiguation)
- Willy Kan, female apprentice jockey from Hong Kong
- Willy von Känel, Swiss footballer
- Willy Kanis, Dutch female racing cyclist
- Willie Otey Kay, American dressmaker
- Willy van de Kerkhof, Dutch footballer
- Willy Kernen, Swiss footballer
- Willy Komen, Kenyan middle-distance runner
- Willy Koppen, Dutch motorcycle racer, one of the first women participating at international motor races during the nineteen fifties
- Willie Lanier, American football player
- Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada
- Willy Ley, German science writer, spaceflight advocate and historian of science
- Willie Limond, Scottish boxer
- William Wallace Lincoln, third son of President Abraham Lincoln
- Willie Kirkpatrick Lindsay, American educator and temperance activist
- Willy Lindström, Swedish ice hockey player
- Willy Lust, Dutch multi-sport track-and-field athlete
- Willie Person Mangum, American politician
- Willie Martinez (disambiguation)
- Willie Mays, American baseball player
- Willie John McBride, Northern Irish former rugby union footballer who played as a lock for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions
- Willie McCovey, American baseball player
- Willie McGee, American former baseball player
- Willy McIntosh, Thai actor, model and TV producer
- Willie McKenna, Scottish footballer
- Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer and manufacturer
- Willie Mitchell (disambiguation)
- Willie Mosconi, American pool player
- Willie Moretti, Italian-American mobster
- Willy Mutunga, Kenyan lawyer, reformer and former Chief Justice of Kenya
- Willie Naulls, American basketball player
- Willie Nelson, American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist
- Willy Van Neste, Belgian retired road racing cyclist
- Willie Norwood (disambiguation)
- Guillermo "Willy" Oddó, Chilean musician
- Willie Ong Filipino cardiologist, media personality and politician
- Willie O'Ree, the first black player in the National Hockey League
- Willie Park Sr., Scottish golfer
- Willie Park Jr., American golfer and golf course architect, son of the above
- Willy Pogany, Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books
- Willie Randolph, American former baseball player, coach and manager
- Willie Revillame, Filipino television host, actor and recording artist
- Willy Rizzo, Italian photographer and designer
- Willie Robertson, American TV personality, businessman, outdoorsman, hunter and author best known for appearing on the reality TV series Duck Dynasty
- Willy Røgeberg, Norwegian rifle shooter and 1936 Olympic champion
- Willy Rohr, German Army World War I officer and tactical innovator
- Willy Ronis, French photographer
- Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, comedian, actor and performer
- Willy Russell, English dramatist, lyricist and composer
- Willy Sagnol, French former football player and manager
- Willy Schäfer (actor), German television actor
- Willy Schäfer (handballer), Swiss Olympic field handball player
- Willy Schärer, Swiss middle-distance runner
- Willie Scott (American football), an American retired National Football League player
- Willie Sims, American-Israeli basketball player
- Willy Sluiter, Dutch painter
- Willie "The Lion" Smith, American jazz pianist
- Willie Smith (alto saxophonist), jazz alto saxophonist
- Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American blues singer, harmonica player and drummer
- Willie Smith (offensive tackle, born 1937), American former football player
- Willie Smith (tight end), American former football player
- Willie Smith (offensive tackle, born 1986), American former football player
- Willy Spühler, Swiss politician
- Willie Stargell, American baseball player
- Willibald Stejskal, Austrian football player and manager
- Willy Stöwer, German artist, illustrator and author
- Willie Sutton, American bank robber
- Willie Taggart, American college football coach
- Willy Taveras, former Major League Baseball player from the Dominican Republic
- Willy Teirlinck, Belgian retired road cyclist
- Willie Thorne, English snooker player and sports commentator
- Willie Tonga, Australian Rugby League player
- Willy Tröger, German footballer
- Willy Vanden Berghen, Belgian retired road bicycle racer
- Willy Vandersteen, Belgian creator of comic books
- Willie Weeks, American bass guitarist
- Willie Williams (disambiguation)
- Willie Wolfe, one of the founding members of the Symbionese Liberation Army terrorist group
- Willie Wolfgramm, Tongan rugby league player
- Willy Wolterstorff, German herpetologist and palaeontologist
- Willie Wood (disambiguation)
- Willie Woodburn, Scottish footballer
- Willy Workman, American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Willie Worsley, American basketball player
- Willie Wright (disambiguation), multiple people
- Willie Young (disambiguation), multiple people
Stage name, pen name, ring name or nom de guerre
- Boxcar Willie, American country music singer
- Willie Aames, American actor, television director, and screenwriter
- Willy Corsari, Dutch singer and author Wilhelmina Angela Schmidt
- Willy DeVille, American singer and songwriter William Paul Borsey, Jr.
- Willy Moon, birth name William George Sinclair, New Zealand-born singer and producer
- Willie Nile, birth name Robert Anthony Noonan, American folk and rock singer and songwriter
- Willie Pep, American boxer Guglielmo Papaleo
- Henry Gauthier-Villars, French fin-de-siecle writer and music critic, pen name Willy
- Simeon Cuba Sarabia or Willy, Bolivian trade unionist and guerrilla under Che Guevara
Dogs
- Willie, General George Patton's dog
- Araki Fabulous Willy, champion Tibetan Terrier
- Wheely Willy, Californian paraplegic chihuahua
Fictional characters
- Chilly Willy, a cartoon character
- Willy Armitage, strongman and IMF agent in the TV series Mission: Impossible
- Willy Fog, protagonist in the Spanish animated series Around the World with Willy Fog
- Willy Loman, protagonist of the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
- Willie Lumpkin, supporting character in Marvel Comics
- Willy Mackey, a villain from Double Dragon
- Willy Roper, in the British soap opera EastEnders
- Captain Willy Schultz, a comic book World War II soldier
- Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott, the female lead character in the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Willie Stark, central character of the novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
- Willy Wonka, in Roald Dahl's children's novels and film adaptations thereof, owner of the chocolate factory
- Groundskeeper Willie, a recurring character on the television series The Simpsons
- Wrong Way Willie, a recurring character in the adventures of Billy Jo Jive, an animated segment featured on Sesame Street in the late 1970s.
- Willy (EastEnders), a fictional dog
- Willy, a fictional killer whale in the films Free Willy, Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home, Free Willy 3: The Rescue, and Free Willy (TV series)
- Willy, a fictional sperm in the book Where Willy Went
- Willy, a sailor from Wigan in the Captain Pugwash series of British children's comic strips and books
- Willy, main character in Willy the Sparrow.
- Willie the Giant, a character in Mickey and the Beanstalk
- Willie, a whale in the Make Mine Music segment Willie the Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met
- Willie the Wildcat (Kansas State), mascot of the Kansas State University Wildcats
- Willie the Wildcat (Northwestern), the mascot of the Northwestern University Wildcats
- Willie and Joe, comics characters created by Bill Mauldin
- King Willie, main villain in Predator 2
- Uncle Willy, a character in the 1995 American horror comedy movie Demon Knight
- Willie, a character from Netflix's Julie and the Phantoms.
- Willie, a character from Sabritas.