Willis (given name)
Willis is a masculine given name which may refer to:
People:
- Willis Bouchey, American actor
- 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 Van Devanter, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- 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 Hudlin, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley, British technologist and electrical engineer
- Willis Jackson , 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 O'Brien, Irish American pioneering motion picture special effects artist
- Willis Peguese, American football player
- Willis Polk, American architect
- Willis Reed, American retired basketball player, coach and general manager
- Willis H. Stephens, Sr., American politician
- Willis Stephens, Jr., American politician, son of the above
- Willis Ward, African-American track and field athlete and football player, lawyer and judge
Fictional characters:
- Willis Jackson, in the 1970s-1980s U.S. TV sitcom Diff'rent Strokes
- Willis, in the anime series
- Willis the Bouncer, a Martian in the novel Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein