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 (born 1925), 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