Willy

People

Given name or nickname

• Willie Aames, American actor, television director, and screenwriter
• Willie Allen , American basketball player and director of the Growing Power urban farming program
• Willie Allen , racing driver
• Willie Anderson
• Willie Apiata, New Zealand Army soldier, only recipient of the Victoria Cross for New Zealand
• Willie , Brazilian footballer Willie Hortencio Barbosa
• Willy Böckl, Austrian world champion figure skater
• Willy Bocklant, Belgian road racing cyclist
• Willy Bogner, Sr., German Nordic skier
• Willy Bogner, Jr., German fashion designer and alpine skier
• Willie Bosket, American convicted murderer whose numerous crimes committed as a minor led to a change in New York state law
• Willy Brandt, 4th chancellor of West Germany, originally a pseudonym of Herbert Frahm
• Willie Brown
• Willy Busch, German footballer
• Willy Caballero, Argentina football goalkeeper
• Willie Cauley-Stein, American basketball player
• Willy Claes, Belgian former politician and eighth Secretary General of NATO
• Willie Clancy , Irish hurler
• Willie Clancy , Irish uilleann piper
• Willie Colón , New York musician and social activist
• Willie Colon , American football player
• Willy Cheruiyot Kipkirui, Kenyan long-distance runner
• Wee Willie Davis, American actor and professional wrestler
• Willie Davis , American baseball player
• Willie Davis , American basketball player
• Willie Davis , American football player
• Willie Davis , American football player
• Willy De Clercq, Belgian politician, deputy prime minister and minister of finance
• Willie Dixon, American blues double-bassist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer
• Willy Eisenhart, American writer on art
• Willie Evans
• Willie Christine King Farris, older sister of Martin Luther King Jr. and his only living sibling
• Willy Fitz, Austrian football player and coach
• Willie Gay, American football player
• Willie Stevenson Glanton, American politician
• Willy Goldberger, German-Spanish cinematographer
• Willie Green, American basketball player
• Willie Green , American football player
• Willie Harris, American baseball player
• Willie Harvey Jr., American football player
• Willie Hector, American football player
• Willy van Hemert, Dutch actor, theatre and television director and songwriter
• Willy Hernangómez, Spanish basketball player
• Willy Hess , Swiss musicologist, composer and Beethoven scholar
• Willy Hess , German violinist and violin teacher
• William Higinbotham, American physicist and anti-nuclear proliferation activist
• Willie Horton, American convicted murderer whose crimes during a furlough was a major issue in the 1988 US presidential campaign
• Willie Horton , American baseball player
• Willy In 't Ven, Belgian former road racing cyclist
• Willy Jäggi, Swiss footballer
• Willy F. James Jr., African-American United States Army soldier posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
• Willie John McBride, Northern Irish former rugby union footballer who played as a lock for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions
• Willie Johnson
• Willie Jones
• Willy von Känel, Swiss footballer
• Willy Kanis, Dutch female racing cyclist
• Willy van de Kerkhof, Dutch footballer
• Willy Kernen, Swiss footballer
• Willy Komen, Kenyan middle-distance runner
• Willie Lanier, American football player
• Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada
• Willy Ley, German science writer, spaceflight advocate and historian of science
• William Wallace Lincoln, third son of President Abraham Lincoln
• Willy Lindström, Swedish ice hockey player
• Willy Lust, Dutch multi-sport track-and-field athlete
• Willie Martinez
• Willie Mays, American Major League Baseball Hall-of-Fame player
• Willie McCovey, American baseball player
• Willie McGee, American baseball player
• Willy McIntosh, Thai actor, model and TV producer
• Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer and manufacturer
• Willie Mitchell
• Willie Mosconi, American pool player
• Willie Moretti, Italian-American mobster
• Willy Mutunga, Kenyan lawyer, reformer and former Chief Justice of Kenya
• Willie Naulls, American basketball player
• Willie Nelson, American country singer-songwriter, author, poet, actor, and activist
• Willy Van Neste, Belgian retired road racing cyclist
• Willie Norwood
• Guillermo "Willy" Oddó, Chilean musician
• Willie O'Ree, first black player in the National Hockey League
• Willie Park, Sr., Scottish golfer
• Willie Park, Jr., American golfer and golf course architect, son of the above
• Willy Pogany, Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books
• Willie Randolph, American former Major League Baseball player, coach and manager
• Willie Revillame, Filipino television host, actor and recording artist
• Willy Rizzo, Italian photographer and designer
• Willie Robertson, American TV personality, businessman, outdoorsman, hunter and author best known for appearing on the reality TV series Duck Dynasty
• Willy Røgeberg, Norwegian rifle shooter and 1936 Olympic champion
• Willy Rohr, German Army World War I officer and tactical innovator
• Willy Ronis, French photographer
• Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, comedian, actor and performer
• Willy Russell, English dramatist, lyricist and composer
• Willy Sagnol, French former football player and manager
• Willy Schäfer , German television actor
• Willy Schäfer , Swiss Olympic field handball player
• Willy Schärer, Swiss middle-distance runner
• Willie Scott , American retired National Football League player
• Willy Sluiter, Dutch painter
• Willie "The Lion" Smith, American jazz pianist
• Willie Smith , jazz alto saxophonist
• Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American blues singer, harmonica player and drummer
• Willie Smith , American former football player
• Willie Smith , American former football player
• Willie Smith , American former football player
• Willy Spühler, Swiss politician
• Willibald Stejskal, Austrian football player and manager
• Willy Stöwer, German artist, illustrator and author
• Willie Sutton, American bank robber
• Willie Taggart, American college football coach
• Willy Taveras, former Major League Baseball player from the Dominican Republic
• Willy Teirlinck, Belgian retired road cyclist
• Willie Thorne, English snooker player and sports commentator
• Willie Tonga, Australian Rugby League player
• Willy Tröger, German footballer
• Willy Vanden Berghen, Belgian retired road bicycle racer
• Willy Vandersteen, Belgian creator of comic books
• Willie Weeks, American bass guitarist
• Willie Williams
• Willie Wolfe, one of the founding members of the Symbionese Liberation Army terrorist group
• Willie Wolfgramm, Tongan rugby league player
• Willy Wolterstorff, German herpetologist and paleontologist
• Willie Wood
• Willie Woodburn, Scottish footballer
• Willy Workman, American-Israeli basketball player for Israeli team Maccabi Haifa
• Willie Worsley, American basketball player
• Willie Young

  Stage name, pen name, ring name or nom de guerre

• Simeon Cuba Sarabia or Willy, Bolivian trade unionist and guerrilla under Che Guevara
• Henry Gauthier-Villars, French fin-de-siecle writer and music critic, pen name Willy
• Willy DeVille, American singer and songwriter born William Paul Borsey, Jr.
• Willy Moon, New Zealand-born singer and producer born William George Sinclair in 1989
• Willie Nile, American folk and rock singer and songwriter born Robert Anthony Noonan
• Willie Pep, American boxer born Guglielmo Papaleo

  Dogs

• Araki Fabulous Willy or Willy, a champion Tibetan Terrier
• Wheely Willy, a paraplegic chihuahua

  Fictional characters

• Willy Armitage, strongman and IMF agent in the TV series Mission: Impossible
• Willy Fog, protagonist in the Spanish animated series Around the World with Willy Fog
• Willy Loman, protagonist of the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
• Willie Lumpkin, supporting character in Marvel Comics
• Willy Mackey, a villain from Double Dragon
• Willy Roper, in the British soap opera EastEnders
• Captain Willy Schultz, a comic book World War II soldier
• Wilhelmina "Willie" Scott, female lead character in the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Willie Stark, central character of the novel All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
• Willy Wonka, in Roald Dahl's children's novels and film adaptations thereof
• Groundskeeper Willie, a recurring character on the television series The Simpsons
• Willy, a fictional dog
• Willy, a fictional whale in the film Free Willy
• Willy, a fictional sperm in the book Where Willy Went
• Willy, a sailor from Wigan in the Captain Pugwash series of British children's comic strips and books
• Willie, a whale in the Make Mine Music segment Willie the Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met
• Willie the Wildcat, mascot of the Kansas State University Wildcats
• Willie the Wildcat, mascot of the Northwestern University Wildcats
• Willie and Joe, comics characters created by Bill Mauldin
• King Willie, an important figure in Predator 2

  Industry

• John Willys,, founder of Willys automobile company
• Willys, a brand name of automobile manufacturer Willys-Overland

  Other

• Colloquial term for penis
• Where's Willy?, a website that tracks banknotes named for the portrait of Wilfrid Laurier on the Canadian $5 bill