People
- Willis (surname)
- Willis Bouchey (1907-1977), American actor
- Willis Carrier (1876-1950), American engineer and inventor, best known for inventing modern air conditioning
- Willis Carto (born 1926), American far right activist and Holocaust denier
- Willis Conover (1920-1996), jazz producer and longtime broadcaster on the Voice of America
- Willis Van Devanter (1859–1941), an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- 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 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 O'Brien (1886–1962), Irish American pioneering motion picture special effects artist
- Willis Polk (1867-1924), American architect
- Willis Reed (born 1942), American retired basketball player, coach and general manager
- Willis H. Stephens, Sr. (born 1925), American politician
- Willis Stephens, Jr. (born 1955), American politician, son of the above
- Willis Ward (1912-1983?), African American track and field athlete and football player at the University of Michigan, lawyer and judge
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