Willi

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Willi is a given name, nickname (often a short form or hypocorism of Wilhelm) and surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

  • Willi Apel (1893–1988), German-American musicologist
  • Willi Boskovsky (1909–1991), Austrian violinist and conductor
  • Willi Forst (1903–1980), born Wilhelm Anton Frohs, Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer
  • Willi Hennig (1913–1976), German biologist
  • Willi Liebherr (born 1947), German-Swiss businessman and billionaire
  • Willi Smith (1948–1987), African-American fashion designer
  • Willi Tiefel, German footballer
  • Willi Ziegler (1929–2002), German paleontologist

Nickname

  • Willi Graf (1918–1943), member of the White Rose anti-Nazi resistance group under consideration for sainthood
  • Willi Münzenberg (1889–1940), German communist political activist and publisher
  • Willi Orbán (born 1992), German-Hungarian footballer
  • Willi Ostermann (1876–1936), German lyricist, composer and singer of carnival songs and songs about Cologne
  • Willi Schmid (1893–1934), German music critic
  • Willi Stoph (1914–1999), East German politician
  • Willi Tokarev (1934–2019), Russian and former expatriate Russian-American singer-songwriter
  • Willi Weber (born 1942), manager of German racing drivers

Surname

  • Andrea Willi (born 1955), politician from Liechtenstein, first woman Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Andreas Willi (born 1972), Swiss linguist, philologist and classicist
  • Herbert Willi (born 1956), Austrian composer of classical music
  • Monika Willi (born 1968), Austrian film editor

See also