Famous People with Name Willis

Willis Vaughton            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Willis Vaughton: was a former professional footballer, who played for Huddersfield Town and Sheffield United. He was born in Sheffield.

Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willis Eugene Lamb, Jr: was a physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum". Lamb and Polykarp Kusch were able to precisely determine certain electromagnetic properties of the electron. See Lamb shift. Lamb was a professor at the University of Arizona.

Willis John Gertsch            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willis John Gertsch: was an entomologist specialising in arachnology. He classified a number of species, including the Brown recluse spider and the Tooth cave spider.Willis John Gertsch (1906-1998) was the premier American arachnologist for half of the Twentieth Century. He was Curator of Arachnids at the American Museum of Natural History and later retired to Portal, Arizona in the Chiricahua Mountains. He was the author of hundreds of generic and specific names in a multitude of families and also the author of "American Spiders", as well as editor of a later revised printing of Comstock's "Spider Book."

Willis Stanley Blatchley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willis Stanley Blatchley: was an American entomologist, malacologist and geologist. In his biological work, Willis Blatchley made contributions to the study of Coleoptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, and the freshwater molluscs of Indiana.

Willis Bernardo García García            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Willis Bernardo García García: is a retired male judoka from Venezuela.García claimed the bronze medal in the Men's Flyweight (– 56 kg) division at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba, alongside Brazil's Sumio Tsujimoto. He represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olym

Simon Charles Willis            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Simon Charles Willis: was an English cricketer. A wicket-keeper, he enjoyed a seven year career with Kent County Cricket Club, before moving behind the scenes at the club.

Jonte Willis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jonte Willis: is an American heavyweight boxer best known for winning the US championships at super heavyweight in 2006. Adopted at the age of four months by Weldon and Dorothy Willis of Huntingdon, he is the youngest of five brothers and five sisters. He is cousin of

Harry "The Black Panther" Wills            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Harry "The Black Panther" Wills: was perhaps the most well known victim of the "color line" drawn by white heavyweight champions after the title reign of Jack Johnson. Wills fought for over twenty years (1911-1932), was ranked as the number one challenger for the throne, but was never gi

Anthony "Tony" Willis            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Anthony "Tony" Willis: is a British former boxer who won a Light Welterweight Bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. As a professional, he held the British lightweight boxing title between 1985 and 1987.

Francis "Frank" Martin Willis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Francis "Frank" Martin Willis: was a Canadian canoer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he and his partner Edward Deir finished sixth in the K-2 1000 m event. Willis also competed with his partner Stanley Potter in the folding K-2 10000 m event where they finished tenth.