Famous People with Name Willy

Willy Hansen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Willy Hansen: was a Danish track cyclist who won a silver medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics with Edmund Hansen and gold and bronze medals at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Willy Breinholst            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Willy Breinholst: was a Danish author, screenwriter, and humorist born in Fredensborg, Denmark.

Willy Alberti            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Willy Alberti: was a Dutch singer, who sang in Dutch and Italian. He was also an actor and a radio and TV personality.He began recording professionally in the early 1940s. He was married in 1944, and his daughter Willeke was born in 1945. After the war Alberti established himself in the Netherlands with Italian songs; he became increasingly popular in the 1950s, when he had a string of hits beginning with Nel blu dipinto di blu in 1958. In the 1960s, he began to act alongside his daughter Willeke; as a duo, they also scored hits on the Dutch charts. From 1965 father and daughter presented a popular monthly television show at the AVRO. Alberti won two Edison Awards in the 1960s.

Willy Lindwer            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Willy Lindwer: is a Dutch documentary filmmaker.He is best known for his films on the Holocaust, Israel and the Middle East, Judaism and Christianity, but has experience in a wide area of documentary filmmaking.In 1988 he won the International Emmy Award for his film The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank. This film contains the testimonies of seven women who were witness to the last months of Anne Frank's life in the Nazi concentration camps, including Hannah Goslar, who knew Anne Frank before she went into hiding, and Janny Brilleslijper who buried her in Bergen-Belsen.

Willy Mullens            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Willy Mullens: was a Dutch producer, director, and promoter of movies. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch cinema, and one of his movies was recently elected as one of only sixteen "Canonical Dutch movies." With his brother Bernardus Albertus (Albert) (20 June 1879, Harlingen - 1941) he started around the turn of the 20th century one of the earliest Dutch film production companies, Alberts Frères. By the second decade of that century he was making documentary films that premiered for royalty. His second company, Haghefilm, dominated the Dutch film market between the two World Wars.