Willis (given name)

Willis is a masculine given name which may refer to the following people:

Men

• Willis Bouchey (1907–1977), American actor
• Willis B. Burns (1851–1915), American businessman and politician
• Willis Carrier (1876–1950), American engineer and inventor, best known for inventing modern air conditioning
• Willis Carto (1926–2015), American far right activist and Holocaust denier
• Willis Conover (1920–1996), jazz producer and longtime broadcaster on the Voice of America
• 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 A. Hawkins (died 1886), justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
• 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 H. 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 (1942–2023), American basketball player, coach and general manager
• Willis Robards (1873–1921), American actor, film director, and film producer
• Willis H. Stephens (1925–2024), American politician
• Willis Stephens, Jr. (born 1955), American politician, son of the above
• Willis Van Devanter (1859–1941), an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Willis Ward (1912-1983?), African-American track and field athlete and football player, lawyer and judge

Women

• Willis Marie Van Schaack, birth name of Lili St. Cyr (1918–1999), American burlesque dancer and stripper