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

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* 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 Ziegler Willi Ziegler (born 13 March 1929 in the neighborhood of Villingen in Hungen, Hessen; died 8 August 2002) was a German paleontologist. Works In 1969, he described the conodont genus ''Protognathodus''. In 1984, with Charles A. Sandberg, he d ...

(1929–2002), German paleontologist

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* 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

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* 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

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