Willis

Willis may refer to:

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

Fictional characters

• Willis Jackson (character), in the 1970s-1980s U.S. TV sitcom Diff'rent Strokes
• Willis family, in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
• Willis (Digimon), in the anime series
• Willis the Bouncer, a Martian character in the novel Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein

Places

United States

• Willis, Florida, a town
• Willis, Kansas, a city
• Willis, Michigan, an unincorporated community
• Willis, Texas, a city
• Willis, Floyd County, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Willis, Russell County, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Willis River, a tributary of the James River in Virginia

Elsewhere

• Willis, Grenada, a town

Buildings

• Willis Tower, Chicago, tallest building in the United States and ninth tallest in the world
• Willis Building (London), also known as 51 Lime Street, a skyscraper in London
• Willis Building (Ipswich), a lowrise office building in Ipswich

Companies

• Willis & Co., former Canadian piano company
• Willis Group Holdings, insurance broker operating around the world

Other uses

• Willis (album), by The Pietasters
• Ulmus 'Willis', hybrid elm cultivar

See also

• Wyllis (disambiguation), alternative spelling
• Willys, an automobile brand (20th century)
• Wills (disambiguation)
• Willes (surname)