Willis - People

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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