Willard Wheatley

{{Short description|Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands (1915–1997)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2016}}

{{Use British English Oxford spelling|date=August 2017}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix = The Honourable

|name = Willard Wheatley

|image =

|honorific-suffix =

|office = Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands

|monarch = Elizabeth II

|governor = Derek George Cudmore
Walter Wilkinson Wallace
James Alfred Davidson

|term_start = 2 June 1971

|term_end = 12 November 1979

|predecessor = Lavity Stoutt

|successor = Lavity Stoutt

|birth_date = {{birth date|1915|07|16|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Tortola, British Virgin Islands

|death_date = {{death date and age|1997|01|22|1915|07|16|df=yes}}

|death_place = Tortola, British Virgin Islands

|party = VI Democratic Party
United Party

|spouse =

}}

Willard Wheatley MBE (16 July 1915 – 22 January 1997) was a British Virgin Islands educator and politician who served two consecutive terms as the Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands from 1971 to 1979. He was the second ever Chief Minister of the Territory, and the first ever minister of finance. He served as Chief Minister at the head of two different coalition governments: one as de facto leader of the United Party, and the other the VI Democratic Party.

At an event to commemorate what would have been the 100th birthday of Wheatley, then Premier Orlando Smith made a commitment to provide public funds to memorialise his achievements and for a book about his life to be published.{{cite web|url=http://bvinews.com/new/late-leader-saluted-amid-plans-to-record-his-legacy/|title=Late leader saluted amid plans to record his legacy|publisher=BVI News|date=20 July 2015|accessdate=20 July 2015}}

His grandson Natalio Wheatley became Premier of the British Virgin Islands in May 2022.