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John Willis (basketball) Johan Josef "John" Willis (born September 23, 1952) is an American-Israeli former basketball player. He played the guard position. He played for ten seasons in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, and also played for the Israeli national basket ...

(born 1952), American-Israeli basketball player * John Willis (inventor) (c. 1575–1625), British clergyman, stenographer and mnemonician *

John Willis (gangster) John Willis (born May 11, 1971), nicknamed Bac Guai John in Cantonese, or White Devil John, is an American mobster linked with the Chinese mafia in Boston and New York. Willis claims to have been the only white person within Chinese organized cr ...

, American mobster linked with the Chinese Mafia *

John A. Willis John Alvin Willis (October 16, 1916 – June 25, 2010) was an American theatre and film book editor, theatre awards producer, actor, and educator. He is best known for editing the long-running annual publications ''Theatre World'' and '' Screen ...

(1916–2010), American theatre and film book editor, theatre awards producer, actor, and educator * John Christopher Willis (1868–1958), English botanist *

John Willis (RAF officer) Air Chief Marshal Sir John Frederick Willis (27 October 1937 – 9 January 2008) was a senior Royal Air Force officer. Flying career John Frederick Willis was born in London and educated at Dulwich College and the RAF College Cranwell. Willis ga ...

(1937–2008), Royal Air Force officer *

John Harlan Willis John Harlan Willis (June 10, 1921 – February 28, 1945) was a United States Navy hospital corpsman who was killed in action during World War II while serving with a United States Marine Corps, Marine Corps rifle company. He was posthumously award ...

(1921–1945), U.S. Navy hospital corpsman * John Willis (bishop) (1872–1954), Anglican bishop * John Walpole Willis (1793–1877), Welsh-born judge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales *

John Willis (cricketer) John William Willis (31 August 1886 – 21 September 1963) was an English cricketer. Willis was a right-handed batsman, though his bowling style is unknown. He was born at Rothwell, Northamptonshire. Willis made a single first-class ap ...

(1886–1963), English cricketer *

John Willis (musician) John David Willis is an American guitarist and songwriter. He is best known for work as a session musician and as a songwriter for television and video games. Biography John Willis was raised in St. Martinville, Louisiana. At age 15, he lea ...

, American guitarist and songwriter * John T. Willis (born 1933), Old Testament scholar *John 'Jock' Willis (1791–1862), ship captain and founder of the

Jock Willis Shipping Line John Willis & Sons of London, also called the Jock Willis Shipping Line, was a nineteenth-century London-based ship-owning firm. It owned a number of clippers including the historic tea clipper ''Cutty Sark''. Company history and its people ...

, also known as John Willis & Sons *John 'Jock' Willis (1817–1899), his son, owner of the '' Cutty Sark''

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John Willis Clark John Willis Clark (1833 – 1910), sometimes J. W. Clark, was an English academic and antiquarian. Academic career Clark was born into a Cambridge University academic family, and was a nephew of Prof. Robert Willis. Educated at Eton and Trinity ...

(1833–1910), English academic and antiquarian *

John Willis Fleming John Willis Fleming (28 November 1781 – 4 September 1844) was an English landed proprietor and Conservative Member of Parliament. He was born at Bletchley in Buckinghamshire, the son of Rev. Thomas Willis and Catherine Hyde. He was educat ...

(1781–1844), English landed proprietor and member of parliament *

John Willis Menard John Willis Menard (April 3, 1838 – October 8, 1893) was a federal government employee, poet, newspaper publisher and politician born in Kaskaskia, Illinois to parents who were Louisiana Creoles from New Orleans. After moving to New Orleans, on ...

(1838–1893), American federal government employee, poet, newspaper publisher and politician

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