Famous People with Name Willard

Willard McKee Hershberger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willard McKee Hershberger: (May 28, 1910 – August 3, 1940) was a major league baseball catcher from 1938 to 1940. Hershberger has the unfortunate distinction of being the only major league player to commit suicide during the season.

Willard Warren Marshall            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willard Warren Marshall: (b. February 8, 1921 in Richmond, Virginia - d. November 5, 2000 in Norwood, New Jersey) was a right fielder in Major League Baseball. From 1942 through 1955, Marshall played for the New York Giants

Willard Frank Libby            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willard Frank Libby: American physical chemist, famous for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology.

Willard Lee Nixon            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willard Lee Nixon: (June 17, 1928 - December 10, 2000) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career with the Boston Red Sox between 1950 and 1958

Willard Motley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Willard Motley: was an African-American writer, related to the noted artist Archibald Motley. The two were raised as brothers, although in actuality Archibald was Willard's uncle. Born into an affluent family in either 1909 or 1912 (sources vary), Willard Motley he grew up in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood, in one of the only African-American families residing there.

Kenneth Henderson Willard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Kenneth Henderson Willard: is a former American football running back/fullback in the National Football League. Willard was drafted with the second pick of the 1965 NFL Draft, by the San Francisco 49ers ahead of future NFL Hall of Famers Dick Butkus and Gale Sayers

Huntington F(axon) Willard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Huntington F(axon) Willard: an American human geneticist. In 2003 he became the Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences, the first Director of the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, and Vice Chancellor for Genome Sciences at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina.Willard graduated from the Belmont Hill School in Belmont, Massachusetts in 1971. He received his A.B. degree in biology from Harvard University in 1975 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1979. He did a postdoctoral fellowship in medical genetics at Johns Hopkins University from 1979-81.

Gerald Duane Willard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gerald Duane Willard: was a Major League Baseball catcher.Willard's career was spent mostly in obscurity, however he did experience one significant moment of fame. On October 23, 1991, playing for the Atlanta Braves in the 1991 World Series against the Minnesota Twins, Willard would make his only series plate appearance in the bottom of the 9th of a 2-2 game, having been sent up to pinch-hit for Francisco Cabrera after a Minnesota pitching change with Mark Lemke on 3rd Base. Facing top reliever Steve Bedrosian with one out, Willard would loft a high fly out to Right Fielder Shane Mack, which proved to be just barely deep enough to score Lemke with the winning run that won the game for the Braves.[citation needed]

Aimee Willard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Aimee Willard: was a star lacrosse player who was murdered on her way home from a night out with friends. Her car was left running and her body was found, but the killer was unknown. The unsolved crime was featured on Unsolved Mysteries. With DNA evidence, her killer wa

Ashbel Parsons Willard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ashbel Parsons Willard: was state senator, the 12th Lieutenant Governor, and the 11th Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana. His terms in office were marked by increasingly severe partisanship leading to the breakup of the state Democratic Party in the years leading up to the Am