Willi Explained

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 Liebherr (born 1947), German-Swiss businessman and billionaire
Willi Smith (1948–1987), African-American fashion designer
Willi Ziegler (1929–2002), German paleontologist

Willi Graf (1918–1943), 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

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