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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 ...

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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 John Christopher Willis FRS (20 February 1868 – 21 March 1958) was an English botanist known for his Age and Area hypothesis and criticism of natural selection. Education Born in Liverpool, he was educated at and University College, Liverpoo ...

(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) John Jamieson Willis (8 November 1872 – 12 November 1954) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Uganda from 1912 to 1934 and subsequently Assistant Bishop of Leicester. He and William George Peel, Bishop of Mombasa, were accused of heresy during ...

(1872–1954), Anglican bishop *

John Walpole Willis John Walpole Willis (4 January 1793 – 10 September 1877) was a British judge of Upper Canada, British Guiana (as acting Chief Justice), the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and resident judge at Port Phillip, Melbourne. Early life The s ...

(1793–1877), Welsh-born judge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales * John Willis (cricketer) (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 ''Cutty Sark'' is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest, coming at the end of a long period of ...

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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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