Willi

Willi is a given name, nickname (often a short form or hypocorism of Wilhelm) and surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

 * Willi Apel (1893–1988), German-American musicologist
 * Willi Boskovsky (1909–1991), Austrian violinist and conductor
 * Willi Forst (1903–1980), born Wilhelm Anton Frohs, Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer
 * Willi Hennig (1913–1976), German biologist
 * Willi Liebherr (born 1947), German-Swiss businessman and billionaire
 * Willi Smith (1948–1987), African-American fashion designer
 * Willi Ziegler (1929–2002), German paleontologist

Nickname

 * Willi Graf (1918–1943), member of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance group under consideration for sainthood
 * Willi Münzenberg (1889–1940), German communist political activist and publisher
 * Willi Orbán (born 1992), German-Hungarian footballer
 * Willi Ostermann (1876–1936), German lyricist, composer and singer of carnival songs and songs about Cologne
 * Willi Schmid (1893–1934), German music critic
 * Willi Stoph (1914–1999), East German politician
 * Willi Tokarev (1934–2019), Russian and former expatriate Russian-American singer-songwriter
 * Willi Weber (born 1942), manager of German racing drivers

Surname

 * Andrea Willi (born 1955), politician from Liechtenstein, first woman Minister of Foreign Affairs
 * Andreas Willi (born 1972), Swiss linguist, philologist and classicist
 * Herbert Willi (born 1956), Austrian composer of classical music
 * Monika Willi (born 1968), Austrian film editor