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Willie Wilson (businessman)
Willie Wilson (born 1948, Gilbert, Louisiana) is a Chicago businessman, philanthropist, and perennial candidate who owned five McDonald's franchises, founded Omar Medical Supplies, created the Emmy-winning gospel show Singsation!, and has run for Chicago mayor in 2015, 2019, 2023, and 2027, plus president in 2016 and U.S. Senate in 2020.
Willis Chimano
Willis Chimano, known mononymously as Chimano, is a Kenyan singer and baritone vocalist of the Afropop band Sauti Sol, who came out publicly in 2021 and now performs solo.
Willkommen und Abschied
"Willkommen und Abschied" ("Welcome and Farewell") is a love poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written in 1771 for Friederike Brion and counted among the best-known works of the Sturm und Drang period.
Willment Leong
Willment Leong is a Singapore-born chef based in Bangkok, Continental Director for Asia at Worldchefs, chairman of World Chefs Without Borders, founder of the Thailand Culinary Academy, and a UN World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador.
Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You is Ethel Cain's (Hayden Anhedönia) second studio album, released August 8, 2025 on Daughters of Cain. A 73-minute, 10-track slowcore concept album, it is the narrative prequel to 2022's Preacher's Daughter, telling the character Ethel's teenage first love with Willoughby Tucker.
Willow (1988 film)
Willow (1988) is an American high fantasy film directed by Ron Howard, written by Bob Dolman from George Lucas's story, starring Warwick Davis as Willow Ufgood with Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley; first credible use of digital morphing by ILM, MGM-distributed, later a cult classic with a 2022 Disney+ series.
Willow (TV series)
Willow (2022) is a Disney+ live-action fantasy series by Lucasfilm and Imagine Entertainment, a sequel to the 1988 film, starring Warwick Davis as Willow Ufgood; eight episodes ran November 2022 to January 2023 before cancellation and removal from streaming.
Willow Avalon
Willow Avalon, stage name of Willow Martin (born 1998, Carlton, Georgia), is an American country singer-songwriter, daughter of Jim White, signed to Atlantic/Assemble Sound, known for Southern Belle Raisin' Hell (2025) and Pink Pocket Pistol (2026).
Willow Creek (film)
Willow Creek (2013) is a found-footage Bigfoot horror film written and directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, starring Alexie Gilmore and Bryce Johnson as a couple retracing the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film site in Humboldt County, California, famous for its long single-take tent scene.
Willow Rosenberg
Willow Rosenberg, also called Dark Willow, is the witch character played by Alyson Hannigan in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003); her romance with Tara Maclay was primetime TV's first recurring lesbian couple, and her sexuality is debated as lesbian or bisexual.
Willow Shields
Willow Shields (born 2000, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American actress known as Primrose Everdeen in all four Hunger Games films (2012–2015), a season 20 Dancing with the Stars youngest-ever contestant, and lead of Spinning Out and When Time Got Louder.
Willow Smith
Willow Smith, full name Willow Camille Reign Smith, is an American singer and daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, known for "Whip My Hair."
Willy and the Poor Boys
Willy and the Poor Boys is Creedence Clearwater Revival's fourth studio album, released November 2, 1969 on Fantasy Records, the third of three 1969 LPs, peaking at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and featuring "Down on the Corner" and "Fortunate Son."
Willy DeVille
Willy DeVille (William Borsey, 1950 or 1953 to 2009) was an American singer-songwriter who fronted Mink DeVille at CBGB, later blending R&B, blues, Cajun, and Latin styles; known for "Spanish Stroll," "Storybook Love," and "Hey Joe."
Willy Kyrklund
Willy Kyrklund, born Paul Wilhelm Kyrklund in Helsinki in 1921, was a Sweden-based Finland-Swedish author of condensed, ironic prose, known for Solange and the essay book Om godheten.
Willy Loman
Willy Loman is the tragic protagonist of Arthur Miller's 1949 play Death of a Salesman, a sixty-year-old salesman whose confused pursuit of success and being liked ends in suicide for a $20,000 insurance payment.
Willy Moon
Willy Moon, stage name of William George Sinclair (born 1989), New Zealand-born London-based musician blending 1950s rock and roll with hip-hop; known for "Yeah Yeah" in Apple's 2012 iPod ad and album Here's Willy Moon.
Willy Rodriguez
Willy Rodriguez (Willy Rodriguez Quiñones), Puerto Rican drummer from Ponce based in New York; Latin Grammy winner on Mon Laferte's Norma (2018), Mars Volta drummer (2022, 2025), leader debut Seeing Sounds (2024), Sunnyside album In The Unknown (2026).
Willy Ronis
Willy Ronis (1910–2009) was a French photographer and a leading figure of humanist photography, known for black-and-white images of working-class Paris, including Le petit Parisien.
Willy Russell
Willy Russell (born 1947) is the English Liverpool playwright of Educating Rita (1980), Blood Brothers (1983), and Shirley Valentine (1986), each an Olivier Award winner; two became films, and he was Oscar-nominated for the Educating Rita screenplay.
Willy William
Willy William (Willy Fauade William), French DJ, producer and singer, ex-Collectif Métissé; known for "Ego" (2015) and "Mi Gente" with J Balvin (2017), first all-Spanish track to top Spotify's global chart.
Willy Wonka
Willy Wonka is the fictional chocolatier created by Roald Dahl in the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Also known for the 1971 Gene Wilder film, the 2005 Johnny Depp version, and the 2023 prequel Wonka, he hides Golden Tickets for factory tours and is now a Netflix-owned franchise spanning films, a reality series, and merchandise.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), Mel Stuart's musical fantasy starring Gene Wilder, adapted from Roald Dahl's 1964 novel, financed by Quaker Oats, shot in Munich, a box-office disappointment that became a classic.
Willy's Chocolate Experience
Willy's Chocolate Experience, also called the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience, was a failed unlicensed Wonka-themed children's event held 24 February 2024 in Glasgow; its AI-generated ads promised an immersive £35 experience, police were called after it was canceled within hours, and 850 refunds were pledged.
Wilma Flintstone
Wilma Flintstone (Wilma Anna Flintstone, née Slaghoople) is the fictional wife of Fred Flintstone in Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones (1960–66), voiced originally by Jean Vander Pyl, mother of Pebbles, based on Alice Kramden of The Honeymooners.
Wilma Stockenström
Wilma Stockenström, born in 1933, is a South African Afrikaans poet, novelist, playwright, and actress, known for her 1981 novel Die kremetartekspedisie, translated by J.M. Coetzee as The Expedition to the Baobab Tree.
Wilmer Valderrama
Wilmer Valderrama, American actor born 1980 in Miami and raised in Venezuela, played Fez on That '70s Show (1998–2006) and Special Agent Nick Torres on NCIS since 2016; also voiced Handy Manny and Encanto's Agustín.
Wilnelia Merced
Wilnelia Merced (Wilnelia Merced Cruz), born 1957 in Caguas, Puerto Rico, is a philanthropist and model crowned Miss World 1975, the first Puerto Rican winner; later Lady Forsyth, wife of Bruce Forsyth, and holder of the Miss World Puerto Rico franchise.
Wilson (1944 film)
Wilson (1944) is Darryl F. Zanuck's Twentieth Century-Fox Technicolor biopic of Woodrow Wilson, directed by Henry King, starring Alexander Knox; it won 5 of 10 Oscars but flopped, earning $2 million on a $5.2 million budget.
Wilson Bethel
Wilson Bethel (Stephen Wilson Bethel, born 1984) is an American actor known for Wade Kinsella on Hart of Dixie, Mark Callan on All Rise, and Bullseye/Benjamin Poindexter in Daredevil and Daredevil: Born Again.