Willis may refer to:
Places
United States
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Willis, Florida Willis is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Florida, United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It ...
, an unincorporated community
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Willis, Indiana, an unincorporated community
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Willis, Kansas
Willis is a city in Brown County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 24.
History
Willis had its start as a station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. A post office opened in Willis in 1882 and remained ...
, a city
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Willis, Michigan
Willis is an unincorporated community in Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is located within Augusta Charter Township. As an unincorporated community, Willis has no legally defined boundaries or population statistics ...
, an unincorporated community
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Willis, Nebraska
Willis (also Brady, Brady's Crossing, Vista) is an unincorporated community in Dakota County, Nebraska, United States. The community lies at the intersection of U.S. Route 20
U.S. Route 20 or U.S. Highway 20 (US 20) is an east–west United ...
, an unincorporated community
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Willis, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
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Willis, Texas
Willis is a city in Montgomery County, Texas, United States, located eight miles north of Conroe in north central Montgomery County. The city began to develop in 1870 after what is now the Union Pacific Railroad built track through the area. As a ...
, a city
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Willis, Floyd County, Virginia
Willis is an unincorporated community in southwestern Floyd County, Virginia, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 221 southwest of the town of Floyd, the county seat of Floyd County. It has an elevation of 2,723 feet (830 m). Al ...
, an unincorporated community
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Willis, Russell County, Virginia
Willis (also Macktown) is an unincorporated community in Russell County, Virginia, United States. Its elevation is 2,215 feet (675 m)., Geographic Names Information System
The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a databas ...
, an unincorporated community
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Willis River
Willis may refer to:
Places
United States
* Willis, Florida, an unincorporated community
* Willis, Indiana, an unincorporated community
* Willis, Kansas, a city
* Willis, Michigan, an unincorporated community
* Willis, Nebraska, an unincorporat ...
, a tributary of the James River in Virginia
Elsewhere
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Willis, Grenada, a town
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Willis Island
Willis Island is the only permanently inhabited island in the Coral Sea Islands Territory, an external territory of Australia, located beyond the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea. The island is located some east of Cairns, Queensland. It ...
, Coral Sea Islands Territory, Australia
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Willis Islands
The Willis Islands are a small archipelago to the west of South Georgia Island in the South Georgia Islands. They are west of Bird Island, separated by the Stewart Strait. They were discovered on 14 January 1775 by Captain James Cook and n ...
, South Georgia Islands
Arts and entertainment
Works
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Giselle
''Giselle'' (; ), originally titled ''Giselle, ou les Wilis'' (, ''Giselle, or The Wilis''), is a romantic ballet (" ballet-pantomime") in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam. Considered a masterwork in the classical ballet performance canon, ...
'' or ''The Willis'', a ballet (in the ballet, the Willis are a group of supernatural women)
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Le Villi
''Le Villi'' (''The Willis'' or ''The Fairies'') is an opera–ballet in two acts (originally one) composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, based on the short story "Les Willis" by Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr. Karr' ...
'' (''The Willis'' or ''The Fairies''), an opera-ballet composed by Giacomo Puccini
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''Willis'' (album), by The Pietasters
Fictional characters
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Willis Jackson (character)
This is a list of characters from the NBC and ABC sitcom ''Diff'rent Strokes
''Diff'rent Strokes'' is an American television sitcom, which aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 19 ...
, in the 1970s-1980s American sitcom ''Diff'rent Strokes''
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Willis (Digimon)
''Digimon Adventure'', ''Digimon Adventure 02'', ''Digimon Adventure tri.'' and '' Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna'' anime series and films produced by Toei Animation for the ''Digimon'' franchise, are centered on the , a group of childre ...
, in the anime series
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Tom and Helen Willis
The television series ''The Jeffersons'' featured several supporting characters. An incomplete list of these characters appears below.
Willis family Helen Willis
Helen Willis (née Douglas) (portrayed by Roxie Roker, except for her first appearan ...
, a fictional couple on the sitcom ''The Jeffersons''
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Willis family
The Willis family are a fictional family from the Australian soap opera '' Neighbours''. They were introduced by Don Battye in 1989, but left screens in 1996, before being reintroduced in 2013. The first family member to be seen on-screen was B ...
, in the Australian soap opera ''Neighbours''
* Willis the Bouncer, a Martian in the novel ''
Red Planet'' by Robert A. Heinlein
* Private Willis, the soldier (of the Grenadier Guards) in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta ''
Iolanthe
''Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri'' () is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen operatic collaborations by Gilbert ...
''
* Leslie Willis, DC Comics villain
Livewire (DC Comics)
Livewire (Leslie Willis) is a supervillainess appearing in multimedia produced by DC Entertainment, and American comic books published by DC Comics. Created for ''Superman: The Animated Series'', the character appeared in March 1997 in ''Superman ...
Buildings
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Willis Tower
The Willis Tower (originally the Sears Tower) is a 108-story, skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), ...
, Chicago, the tallest building in the United States and ninth-tallest in the world
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Willis Building (London)
The Willis Building is a commercial skyscraper in London named after the primary tenant, Willis Group. It is located on Lime Street in the City of London financial district.
The building was designed by Norman Foster and developed by British La ...
, a skyscraper
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Willis Building, Ipswich
The Willis Building (originally the Willis Faber & Dumas regional headquarters) in Ipswich, England, is one of the earliest buildings designed by Norman Foster and Wendy Cheesman after establishing Foster Associates. Constructed between 1970 and ...
, a lowrise office building
Companies
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Willis & Co., a former Canadian piano company
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Willis Group Holdings
Willis Group Holdings plc was a multinational risk advisor, insurance brokerage and reinsurance brokerage company with its headquarters in the Willis Building in London until its merger of equals with financial services company Towers Watson ...
, a former insurance broker
People
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Willis (given name) Willis is a masculine given name which may refer to the following people:
Men
*Willis Bouchey (1907–1977), American actor
* Willis B. Burns (1851–1915), American businessman and politician
*Willis Carrier (1876–1950), American engineer and in ...
, a list of people
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Willis (surname) Willis is a surname of English, Norman French, and Scottish origin. The oldest extant family of the name, the Willes family of Warwickshire, formerly of Newbold Comyn and Fenny Compton, has used the spellings 'Willis,' 'Willys,' and 'Wyllys' and a ...
, a list of people
Other uses
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Willis Street
Willis Street is a prominent street in the central business district of Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. Along with Courtenay Place, Manners Street and Lambton Quay, the lower reaches of Willis Street form part of the "Golden Mile" ...
, Wellington, New Zealand
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Willis High School
Willis High School is a public senior high school in Conroe, Texas, with a Willis postal address. It is a part of the Willis Independent School District.
History
In 2004 the school had about 1,440 students.
Ben Cooper was the principal until 2 ...
, Conroe, Texas, United States
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Ulmus 'Willis'
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the flowering plant genus ''Ulmus'' in the plant family Ulmaceae. They are distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the temperate and tropical-montane regions of North ...
, a hybrid elm cultivar
See also
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Wilis (disambiguation) Wilis may refer to:
*Mount Wilis
* Wili, a type of supernatural being in Slavic folklore
**'' Giselle'' or ''Giselle ou les Wilis'', a ballet
See also
*Wili (disambiguation)
*Willis (disambiguation)
Willis may refer to:
Places
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Wyllis Wyllis is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
People with the surname
*Francis Wyllis (died 1597), English academic administrator and dean
*George Wyllis (1590–1645), American governor
People with the given nam ...
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Wills (disambiguation) Wills may refer to:
* Will (law), a legal document
Places
Australia
* Wills, Queensland, a locality in the Shire of Boulia
* Division of Wills, an Australian electoral division in Victoria
United States
* Wills Township, LaPorte County, Indiana
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Willes (surname) Willes is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Christiana Willes (1786-1873), English cricketer, sister of John
*Christine Willes, Canadian television, theatre and film actress
*Edmund Willes (1832–1896), English cricketer
*Edward ...
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