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Will [wil] or Wil is a given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of William, Wilson, Wilfred, Wilbert, Willow, Wilmer, Wilbur, Wilhelmina, Wilma, Willard or Willeke.
Notable people with the name include:
Men
- Will Alsop (1947–2018), British architect
- Will Anderson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Will Arnett (born 1970), Canadian-American actor, voice actor and comedian
- Will Bagley (1950–2021), American historian
- Will Barclay (born 1969), American politician
- Will Barnet (1911–2012), American artist
- Will Biederman, American engineer
- Wil Boessen (born 1964), Dutch football manager and former player
- Will Brownsberger (born 1957), American politician
- Will Bynum (born 1983), American basketball player
- Wil Calhoun, American television producer and writer
- Will Chase (born 1970), American actor and singer
- Will Clapp (born 1995), American football player
- Will Clark (born 1964), American baseball player
- Will Clyburn (born 1990), American professional basketball player
- Wil Cordero (born 1971), Puerto Rican baseball player
- Will Craig (born 1994), American baseball player
- Will Dissly (born 1996), American football player
- Will Durant (1885–1981), American writer and historian
- Will Durst (born 1952), American humorist
- Will Eisner (1917–2005), American cartoonist
- Will Eno (born 1965), American playwright
- Will Estes (born 1978), American actor
- Will Ferrell (born 1967), American actor
- Will Finn (born 1958), American animator
- Will Flemming (born 1979), American sportscaster
- Will Fries (born 1998), American football player
- Will Forte (born 1970), American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer
- Will Fuller (born 1994), American football player
- Will Geer (1902–1978), American actor and social activist
- Will Graham (evangelist) (born 1975), American evangelist
- Will Grier (born 1995), American football player
- Will Grigg (born 1991), English footballer
- Will Gold (born 1996), English Internet personality and musician
- Will Hall (American football) (born 1980), American football coach
- Will Hall (writer) (born 1966), American mental health advocate, writer, and counselor
- Will Harris (American football) (born 1997), American football player
- Will Hastings (born 1996), American football player
- Will Hay (1888–1949), English comedian
- Will H. Hays (1879–1954), American politician
- Will Heard (born 1991), English singer-songwriter
- Will Heldt (born 2005), American football player
- Will Hernandez (born 1995), American football player
- Will Hill (born 1990), American football player
- Will Holden (American football) (born 1993), American football player
- Will Holland (born 1998), American baseball player
- Will Hutchins (born 1930), American actor
- Wil S. Hylton, American journalist
- Will Inman (poet) (1923–2009), American poet
- Will Johnson (disambiguation), multiple people
- Wil Jones (basketball) (born 1947), American basketball player
- Will Keith Kellogg (1860–1951), American businessman, founder of the Kellogg food company
- Will Kemp (actor, born 1977), English actor and dancer
- Will Kimbrough (born 1964), American singer-songwriter
- Will Klein (baseball) (born 1999), American baseball player
- Will Lee (disambiguation), several people
- Will Levis (born 1999), American football player
- Wil London (born 1997), American sprinter
- Wil Lutz (born 1994), American football player
- Will Lyman (born 1948), American voice actor
- Will Mallory (born 1999), American football player
- Will Mastin (1878–1975), American entertainer
- Wil McCarthy (born 1966), American science fiction novelist
- Will McClay (born 1966), American football player and coach
- Will McDonald IV (born 1999), American football player
- Will Murray (born 1953), American author and scholar of pulp fiction
- Will Muschamp (born 1971), American football head coach
- Wil Myers (born 1990), American baseball player
- Wil Nieves (born 1977), Puerto Rican baseball player
- Will Nightingale (born 1995), English footballer
- Will Ospreay (born 1993), English professional wrestler
- Will Overstreet (born 1979), American football player
- Will Patton (born 1954), American actor
- Will Pauling, American football player
- Will Poulter (born 1993), English actor
- Will Purdue (born 1965), American basketball player
- Will Putnam (born 2000), American football player
- Will Rayman (born 1997), American-Israeli basketball player for Hapoel Haifa in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Will Reichard (born 2001), American football player
- Wil Robinson (born 1949), American basketball player
- Will Rogers (1879–1935), American humorist
- Will Rogers (American football) (born 2001), American football player
- Will Ryan (1949–2021), American voice actor
- Will Sampson (1933–1987), American actor and painter
- Will Sasso (born 1975), Canadian actor
- Will Shipley (born 2002), American football player
- Will Shortz (born 1952), American puzzle creator
- Wil Shriner (born 1953), American actor
- Will Smith (born 1968), American actor and rapper
- Will Solomon (born 1978), American basketball player
- Will Solace, from the Percy Jackson series
- Will Sommers (died 1560), the best-known court jester of King Henry VIII
- Will Streets (1886–1916), English soldier and poet of the First World War
- Will Sutton (born 1991), American football player
- Will Tschetter (born 2003), American basketball player
- Wil Trapp (born 1993), American soccer player
- Wil Traval (born 1980), Australian actor
- Wil van der Aalst (born 1966), Dutch computer scientist, and professor
- Will Vinton (1947–2018), American filmmaker
- Wil Waluchow, Canadian philosopher
- Will Weaver (basketball), American basketball coach
- Wil Wheaton (born 1972), American actor
- Will Whitehorn (born 1960), British business executive
- Will Williams (born 1995), American long jumper
- Will Wilson (disambiguation), several people
- Will Windham (born 1985), American football coach
- Will Wright (disambiguation), several people
- Will Wynn (born 1961), former mayor of Austin, Texas
- Will Wood, American musician, singer-songwriter, and comedian
- Will Young (disambiguation), several people
- Will Yun Lee (born 1971), American actor
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Women
- Wil Burgmeijer (born 1947), Dutch speed skater
- Wil de Visser (born 1952), Dutch footballer
- Will Allen Dromgoole (1860–1934), American author and poet
- Wil Lou Gray (1883–1984), American educator
- Wil Schuurman (born 1943), Dutch politician
- Wil van Gogh (1862–1941), Dutch nurse and feminist, youngest sister of Vincent van Gogh
- Will van Kralingen (1951–2012), Dutch actress
- Wil Velders-Vlasblom (1930–2019), Dutch politician
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Fictional characters
- Will Graham, protagonist of Thomas Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon, two film adaptations of the novel and the television series Hannibal
- Wil, the main character of the Welsh-language TV series Wil Cwac Cwac
- Will, in the video game Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
- Will (Pokémon), in the Pokémon universe
- Will Blake, in the Goosebumps series
- Will Byers, one of the main characters of Stranger Things
- Will Cloud, one of the main characters in the 2014 film Cloud 9
- Will Gardner, on the American TV series The Good Wife
- Will Griggs, on the Australian soap opera Neighbours
- Will Herondale from Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices
- Will Horton, on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Will Hunting, protagonist of the 1997 film Good Will Hunting
- Will Ladislaw, in George Eliot's Middlemarch
- Wil Ohmsford, in the fantasy novel The Elfstones of Shannara and the TV series The Shannara Chronicles
- Will Robinson, one of the main characters in the TV series Lost in Space
- Will Sawyer, the protagonist in the 2018 film Skyscraper
- Will Scarlet, one of Robin Hood's Merry Men
- Will Solace from Rick Riordan's The Trials of Apollo
- Will Treaty from John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice
- Will Truman, one of the title characters of the TV sitcom Will & Grace
- Will Turner, in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series
- Wilhelmina "Will" Vandom, one of the five main titular characters in the 2017 republished comic book series of W.I.T.C.H.
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