Famous People with Name Willard

Jess Willard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jess Willard: a world Heavyweight boxing champion.

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]