Michael Willis (1799-1879) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland who emigrated to Canada and became Principal of Knox College, Toronto.

He was the son of Rev William Willis of Stirling (died 1827),[1] a minister of the Old Light Burghers, a Secessionist church.

This was highly involved in the rescue and sanctuary end of the so-called "Underground Railway" which helped many thousands of slaves escape America to find safety in Canada.

[7] In this process he befriended and aided Rev William King and was noteworthy for giving the very first communion to a group of fugitive negro slaves arrived at their mission church at Buxton in Ontario.

In this he replaced Rev William Ormiston who had done much of the work in establishing the church formally and organising its first Synod.