Willi

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

Given name

• 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 Lesch (born 1942), German alpine skier
• Willi Liebherr (born 1947), German-Swiss businessman and billionaire
• Willi Smith (1948–1987), African-American fashion designer
• Willi Tiefel, German footballer
• Willi Ziegler (1929–2002), German paleontologist

Nickname

• Willi Graf (1918–1943), German 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

Surname

• 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
• Monika Willi (born 1968), Austrian film editor

See also

• Wili (disambiguation)
• Willy (disambiguation)
• William (given name)