Wills
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Wills is a surname
and may refer to:
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
and may refer to:
- Alfred WillsAlfred WillsSir Alfred Wills PC was a British High Court judge and a well-known mountaineer. He was the third President of the Alpine Club from 1863 to 1865.-Early life:...
(1828–1912), English High Court judge and mountaineer - Andrew WillsAndrew WillsAndrew Wills is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Wills was a character of the game, noticeable due to his clean shaven head, and played mostly on the wing or half forward. He played for the Geelong Football Club, the Fremantle Football Club and the Western...
(b. 1972), Australian rules footballer - Anneke WillsAnneke WillsAnneke Wills is an English actress, best-known for her role as the Doctor Who's companion Polly in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Biography:...
(b. 1941), British actress - Arthur WillsArthur WillsDr Arthur Wills OBE is a musician, composer, and professor. He was Director of Music at Ely Cathedral from 1958 to 1990, and also held a Professorship at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1964 until 1992...
(b. 1926), Director of Music at Ely Cathedral (1958–1990) - Bob WillsBob WillsJames Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...
(1905–1975), American Western swing musician - Bump WillsBump WillsElliot Taylor "Bump" Wills is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Texas Rangers and Chicago Cubs . He also played two seasons in Japan for the Hankyu Braves...
(b. 1952), American Major League baseball player - Chill WillsChill WillsChill Theodore Wills was an American film actor, and a singer in the Avalon Boys Quartet.-Biography:Wills was born in Seagoville, Texas in 1902. He was a performer from early childhood, forming and leading the Avalon Boys singing group in the 1930s...
(1902–1978), American film actor - Chris WillsChris WillsChris Wills is a Champion of the British game show Countdown and a veteran of numerous other shows.- Countdown :...
(b. 1978), British gameshow Countdown champion - Christopher WillsChristopher WillsChristopher J. Wills is Professor of Biology at UCSD.He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. As a Guggenheim Fellow, he worked at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, on protein chemistry and evolution....
, American biologist - David Wills (disambiguation)
- Frank Wills (architect)Frank Wills (architect)Frank Wills was a British-born architect who is associated with the design of early Gothic Revival churches in North America.-Biography:Frank Wills was born in Exeter, Devon England in 1822, where he started working under John Hayward, he was a member of the Exeter Architectural Society, and his...
(1822–1857), British architect - Frank Wills (security guard) (1948–2000), security guard that discovered the break-in that led to the Watergate scandal
- Frederick Wills (disambiguation)
- Garry WillsGarry WillsGarry Wills is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and prolific author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American politics, American political history and ideology and the Roman Catholic Church. Classically trained at a Jesuit high school and two universities, he is proficient in Greek and Latin...
(b. 1934), American author and historian - Harry WillsHarry Wills240px|rightHarry "The Black Panther" Wills was perhaps the most well known victim of the "color line" drawn by white heavyweight champions after the title reign of Jack Johnson...
(1889–1958), American boxer - Helen Wills MoodyHelen Wills MoodyHelen Newington Wills Roark , also known as Helen Wills Moody, was an American tennis player. She has been described as "the first American born woman to achieve international celebrity as an athlete."-Biography:...
(1905–1998), American tennis player - Henry WillsHenry WillsHenry Wills was a British journalist and photographer with a passion for local history and archaeology. He is best remembered for his writings on British anti-invasion preparations of World War II, his most often cited work being Pillboxes — A Study of UK Defences 1940.Henry Wills worked for...
(b. 1930), British journalist - Henry Overton Wills IIIHenry Overton Wills IIIHenry Overton Wills redirects here. For Henry Overton Wills I and Henry Overton Wills II see the history of W. D. & H. O. Wills.Henry Overton Wills III was the first Chancellor of the University of Bristol....
(1828–1911), first Chancellor of the University of Bristol - James WillsJames WillsJames Wills, , was an Irish writer and poet.Wills was born in County Roscommon, the younger son of a landowner. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and studied law in the Middle Temple, London...
(1790–1868), Irish writer and poet - John WillsJohn WillsJohn Wills D.D. was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford.Wills was elected Warden of Wadham College, Oxford on 7 July 1783, a post he held until his death in 1806....
(d. 1806), Warden of Merton College, Oxford - Jonathan Wills (journalist), British journalist
- Jonathon W. G. WillsJonathon W. G. WillsJonathan W. G. Wills, is a Scottish journalist.He is most famous as involved in a 1997 lawsuit brought against him as publisher of The Shetland News. The plaintiff in the case, The Shetland Times, accused Wills' company, Zetnews Ltd., of stealing news stories from their site by using hyperlinks...
, Scottish journalist - Josh Wills, member of the American band Story of the Year
- Kevin WillsKevin WillsKevin Wills is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder.He began his career in non-league football with local club Stoke Gabriel, where he was spotted playing by Plymouth Argyle. He progressed through the clubs youth setup to make his first team debut at the age of 17, in September 1998...
(b. 1980), English footballer - Lucy WillsLucy WillsLucy Wills, MA , LRCP, MB BS was a leading English haematologist. She conducted seminal work in India in the late 1920s and early 1930s on macrocytic anaemia of pregnancy. Her observations led to her discovery of a nutritional factor in yeast which both prevents and cures this disorder...
(1888–1964), English haematologist - Marcus WillsMarcus WillsMarcus Wills is an Australian artist. He graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1995.He was the winner of the 2006 Archibald Prize for his painting of The Paul Juraszek Monolith, which was based on an engraving by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder.In 2000, he won the second Brett Whiteley...
(b. 1972), Australian artist - Mark WillsMark WillsDaryl Mark Williams is an American country music artist, best known professionally as Mark Wills. Signed to Mercury Records between 1996 and 2003, he released five studio albums for the label — Mark Wills, Wish You Were Here, Permanently, Loving Every Minute and And the Crowd Goes Wild — as well...
(b. 1973), American country music artist - Maury WillsMaury WillsMaurice Morning "Maury" Wills is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and switch-hitting batter who played most prominently with the Los Angeles Dodgers , and also with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Montreal Expos...
(b. 1932), American Major League baseball player - Michael WillsMichael WillsMichael David Wills, Baron Wills is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Swindon North from 1997 to 2010. He was a Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, a position he held from 29 June 2007....
(b. 1952), English politician - Richard Wills (disambiguation)
- Royal Barry WillsRoyal Barry WillsRoyal Barry Wills was a preeminent Boston architect and author. He was an award-winning master of the Cape Cod style house, particularly its 1930s-1950s Colonial Revival incarnation...
(1895–1962), American architect - Simon Wills (racing driver) (b. 1976), New Zealand racing driver
- Ted WillsTed WillsTheodore Carl Wills is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox from 1959-1965.-Professional career:...
(b. 1934), American Major League baseball player - Tom WillsTom WillsThomas Wentworth "Tom" Wills was an Australian all-round sportsman, umpire, coach and administrator who is credited with being a catalyst towards the invention of Australian rules football....
(1835–1880), Australian sportsman - William Wills (disambiguation):
- William Gorman WillsWilliam Gorman WillsWilliam Gorman Wills , was an Irish dramatist and painter.-Biography:The son of James Wills , author of Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen, William was born in Dublin and educated at Waterford Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin.After publishing his novel Old Times in an Irish...
(1828–1891), Irish dramatist and painter - William Wills, 1st Baron WinterstokeWilliam Wills, 1st Baron WinterstokeWilliam Henry Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke , known as Sir William Wills, Bt, between 1893 and 1906, was a British businessman, philanthropist and Liberal politician.-Background:...
(1830–1911) - William Henry Wills (politician)William Henry Wills (politician)William Henry Wills , also known as William H. Wills, was a politician in the U.S. state of Vermont. He was the 59th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1937–41 and the 65th Governor of Vermont from 1941-45. In 1944, Wills was a delegate to Republican National Convention.-External links:*...
(1882–1946), United States politician and Governor of Vermont - William John WillsWilliam John WillsWilliam John Wills was an English surveyor who also trained for a while as a surgeon. He achieved fame as the second-in-command of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north, finding a route across the continent from the settled...
(1834–1861), English explorer and second-in-command of the Burke and Wills expeditionBurke and Wills expeditionIn 1860–61, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills led an expedition of 19 men with the intention of crossing Australia from Melbourne in the south to the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north, a distance of around 3,250 kilometres...
- William Gorman Wills
See also
- Will (law)Will (law)A will or testament is a legal declaration by which a person, the testator, names one or more persons to manage his/her estate and provides for the transfer of his/her property at death...
, a legal document expressing the desires of the author with regard to the disposition of property after the author's death - Division of WillsDivision of WillsThe Division of Wills is an Australian electoral division of Victoria. It is currently held by the Australian Labor Party's Kelvin Thomson.The electorate encompasses many of the suburbs in the City of Moreland in Melbourne's north, including Brunswick, Coburg, Fawkner, Glenroy, and Essendon Airport...
, an Australian electoral division - Prince William of WalesPrince William of WalesPrince William, Duke of Cambridge KG , is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and third eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh...
, nicknamed Wills - W. D. & H. O. Wills, tobacco company, merged into Imperial TobaccoImperial TobaccoImperial Tobacco is a global tobacco company headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom. It is the world’s fourth-largest cigarette company measured by market share , and the world's largest producer of cigars, fine-cut tobacco and tobacco papers...
- Wills HallWills HallWills Hall is one of the nine halls of residence in the University of Bristol. Cresting the Stoke Bishop site on the edge of the Bristol Downs, in Parry's Lane, it houses 340 students in two quadrangles...
, a student residence of the University of BristolUniversity of BristolThe University of Bristol is a public research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom. One of the so-called "red brick" universities, it received its Royal Charter in 1909, although its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876.The University is... - Jack WillsJack Wills__NOEDITSECTION__Jack Wills is a mid-range British clothing brand aimed at university students. The fashion label uses the brand and registered trademark "Jack Wills – University Outfitters" to reflect the heritage and inspiration behind the brand....
, clothing brand - Willis (disambiguation)
- Wiles (disambiguation)