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Willard G. Manning

Willard G. Manning Jr. (1946–2014) was an American health economist at the University of Chicago known for his analysis of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment.

Willard Nelson Clute

Willard Nelson Clute (1869–1950), American botanist and pteridologist, co-founder of the American Fern Society, editor of the Fern Bulletin and American Botanist, author of Our Ferns in their Haunts.

Sep 19, 2026

Willard Rockwell (1888–1978) was an American industrialist who founded the Wisconsin Parts Company in 1919 and led its $922 million takeover of North American Aviation, creating Rockwell International.

Willard S. Boyle

Willard S. Boyle was a Canadian physicist at Bell Laboratories who co-invented the charge-coupled device, the image sensor behind digital cameras, winning the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Willard S. Moore

Willard S. Moore is an American marine geochemist at the University of South Carolina known for establishing submarine groundwater discharge as a major land-to-sea pathway.

Oct 21, 2026

Willard Schmidt

Willard Theodore Schmidt (1910-1965), American basketball center from Swanton, Nebraska; Creighton star and McPherson Globe Refiners player who won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and is credited as one of the first two dunkers.

Willard Scott

Willard Scott (Willard Herman Scott Jr.) is an American weather presenter who forecast on NBC's Today show from 1980 to 1996 and originated Ronald McDonald in 1963.

Willard Van Dyke

Willard Van Dyke (1906–1986) was an American photographer and documentary filmmaker who co-founded Group f/64 in 1932 and directed film at the Museum of Modern Art.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000) was an American philosopher and logician who spent his career at Harvard, challenging the analytic–synthetic distinction in "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (1951).

Oct 21, 2026

Wille Grut

Wille Grut (William Oscar Guernsey Grut), Swedish modern pentathlete and artillery officer, born 1914, died 2012; won London 1948 Olympic gold with a record 16 place-points and served as UIPMB secretary general 1960-1984.

Sep 27, 2026

Wille Rydman

Wille Rydman, born 1986, is a Finnish Finns Party politician serving as Minister of Social Affairs and Health since 2026, after being Minister of Economic Affairs from 2023.

Willehad

Willehad (died 8 November 789) was a Northumbrian-born Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frisians and Saxons who, commissioned by Charlemagne, became the first bishop of Bremen.

Willehalm

Willehalm is an unfinished Middle High German verse epic by Wolfram von Eschenbach, composed around 1210–1220, retelling the wars of the Christian count Willehalm against the Saracens.

Willem Abraham Wythoff

Willem Abraham Wythoff (1865–1939) was a Dutch mathematician from Amsterdam who solved a two-pile Nim game with the golden ratio, giving the Wythoff pairs and array.

Willem Bilderdijk

Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831) was a Dutch poet and lawyer, the leading figure of the early Romantic movement in the Netherlands, with more than 300,000 lines of verse.

Willem Claesz. Heda

Willem Claesz. Heda (1594–1680) was a Dutch still-life painter who spent his career in Haarlem and was one of the originators of the tonal, monochrome breakfast and banquet still life.

Willem Dafoe

Willem Dafoe (born 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American actor and Wooster Group co-founder; four-time Oscar nominee (Platoon, Shadow of the Vampire, The Florida Project, At Eternity's Gate) and Venice Biennale Theatre artistic director for 2025-2028.

Willem Dafoe filmography

Willem Dafoe filmography: screen career of the American actor (born 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin), from Heaven's Gate and Platoon through Spider-Man, Poor Things, Nosferatu, and the 2026 films Werwulf and Tenzing.

Willem de Kooning

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Dutch-born American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School, known for the Woman series, black-and-white abstractions, gestural landscapes, and a drawing practice that blurred drawing and painting.

Willem de Sitter

Willem de Sitter (1872–1934) was a Dutch astronomer and cosmologist, professor at Leiden University from 1908, known for the de Sitter universe, an expanding solution of Einstein's field equations.

Willem de Vlamingh

Willem de Vlamingh was a Dutch sea captain who led a 1696–1697 Dutch East India Company expedition that charted Western Australia and named Rottnest Island and the Swan River.

Willem de Vos (microbiologist)

Willem M. de Vos (born 1954 in Apeldoorn) is a Dutch microbiologist and emeritus professor at Wageningen University, known for discovering the gut bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila.

Willem Einthoven

Willem Einthoven was a Dutch physiologist at Leiden University who invented the string galvanometer, turned electrocardiography into a practical clinical method, and won the 1924 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Willem Elsschot

Willem Elsschot, pen name of Antwerp writer Alfons Jozef de Ridder (1882–1960), was a Flemish novelist and poet whose Kaas (Cheese, 1933) is the most translated book from Flanders.

Sep 24, 2026

Willem Fermor

Willem Fermor, known in Russian as Villim Villimovich Fermor, was a Russian general-anshef who commanded Russian armies early in the Seven Years' War and took Königsberg in January 1758.

Willem Hendrik Buiter

Willem Hendrik Buiter is a British-American New Keynesian economist known for work on monetary economics and central banking, and for serving as Citigroup's Global Chief Economist.

Willem Hendrik Keesom

Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876–1956) was a Dutch low-temperature physicist at Leiden who first solidified helium in 1926, discovered the lambda transition, and named the Keesom interaction.

Willem Hendrik Kosters

Willem Hendrik Kosters (1843–1897) was a Dutch Reformed minister and Old Testament scholar who became Abraham Kuenen's successor at Leiden University in 1892.

Willem Holleeder

Willem Holleeder, Dutch organized crime figure nicknamed De Neus, took part in the 1983 Heineken kidnapping and was sentenced to life in 2022 for instigating five underworld murders.