Famous People with Name Willard

Willard Herman Scott, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willard Herman Scott, Jr.: an American media personality and author best known for his work on NBC's The Today Show and as the creator of the Ronald McDonald character.Scott showed an early interest in broadcasting as a 16-year-old, working in 1950 as an NBC page at WRC-AM, NBC's owned-and-operated television station in Washington, D.C..[1] Scott then attended American University, where he worked alongside fellow student Ed Walker at WAMU-AM, the university's radio station (1951–1953). Scott became a member of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity while at American University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy and religion.[

Willard Leroy Metcalf            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willard Leroy Metcalf: was an American artist. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and later attended Académie Julian, Paris. After early figure-painting and illustration, he became prominent as a landscape painter. He was

Willard Van Orman Quine            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willard Van Orman Quine: was an American analytic philosopher and logician. From 1930 until his death 70 years later, Quine was affiliated in some way with Harvard University, first as a student, then as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of mathematics, and finally as an em

Willard Ikola            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willard Ikola: was an American ice hockey player and high school boy's hockey coach. Born in Eveleth, Minnesota, a powerhouse in hockey (owning seven state high school championships, including the very first Minnesota state hockey tournament in 1945, and producing six m

Willard Wadsworth Rice            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willard Wadsworth Rice: was an American ice hockey player who competed in the 1924 Winter Olympics.He was a member of the American ice hockey team, which won the silver medal.

Fred Willard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Fred Willard: is an American comedian and character actor, known for his improvisational comedy skills. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the mockumentaries This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind. He is also an alumi of The Second City comedy troupe

Kenneth Henderson Willard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kenneth Henderson Willard: is a former American football running back/fullback in the National Football League. Willard was drafted with the second pick of the 1965 NFL Draft, by the San Francisco 49ers ahead of future NFL Hall of Famers Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers

Huntington F(axon) Willard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Huntington F(axon) Willard: an American human geneticist. In 2003 he became the Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences, the first Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, and Vice Chancellor for Genome Sciences at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.Willard graduated from the Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Massachusetts in 1971. He received his A.B. degree in biology from Harvard University in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1979. He did a postdoctoral fellowship in medical genetics at Johns Hopkins University from 1979-81.

Gerald Duane Willard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gerald Duane Willard: was a Major League Baseball catcher.Willard's career was spent mostly in obscurity, however he did experience one significant moment of fame. On October 23, 1991, playing for the Atlanta Braves in the 1991 World Series against the Minnesota Twins, Willard would make his only series plate appearance in the bottom of the 9th of a 2-2 game, having been sent up to pinch-hit for Francisco Cabrera after a Minnesota pitching change with Mark Lemke on 3rd Base. Facing top reliever Steve Bedrosian with one out, Willard would loft a high fly out to Right Fielder Shane Mack, which proved to be just barely deep enough to score Lemke with the winning run that won the game for the Braves.[citation needed]

Aimee Willard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Aimee Willard: was a star lacrosse player who was murdered on her way home from a night out with friends. Her car was left running and her body was found, but the killer was unknown. The unsolved crime was featured on Unsolved Mysteries. With DNA evidence, her killer wa