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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. I ...
, an unincorporated community * Willis, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Willis, Kansas, a city * Willis, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Willis, Nebraska, an unincorporated community * Willis, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community * Willis, Texas, a city * Willis, Floyd County, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Willis, Russell County, Virginia, an unincorporated community * Willis River, a tributary of the James River in Virginia


Elsewhere

* Willis, Grenada, a town * Willis Island, Coral Sea Islands Territory, Australia *
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) * '' Le Villi'' (''The Willis'' or ''The Fairies''), an opera-ballet composed by Giacomo Puccini * ''Willis'' (album), by The Pietasters


Fictional characters

* Willis Jackson (character), in the 1970s-1980s American sitcom ''Diff'rent Strokes'' * Willis (Digimon), in the anime series * Tom and Helen Willis, a fictional couple on the sitcom ''The Jeffersons'' * Willis family, 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 Gilbe ...
'' * Leslie Willis, DC Comics villain Livewire (DC Comics)


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 (S ...
, Chicago, the tallest building in the United States and ninth-tallest in the world *
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 *
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 an ...
, a lowrise office building


Companies

* Willis & Co., a former Canadian piano company *
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 i ...
, a former insurance broker


People

* Willis (given name), a list of people * Willis (surname), a list of people


Other uses

* Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand * Willis High School, Conroe, Texas, United States * Ulmus 'Willis', a hybrid elm cultivar


See also

* Wilis (disambiguation) * Wyllis * Wills (disambiguation) * Willes (surname) {{disambiguation, geo