Willy Dols (Sittard, 21 March 1911 – Schwesing, 5 November 1944) was a Dutch linguist, dialectologist and phonologist.
He was the first one to make a profound study of the diphthongization which is typical for the Sittard dialect, in his dissertation which was not published until nine years after his death.
Despite the crisis, people were searching several academic posts abroad (first in Estonia, then in Czechoslovakia) for him.
On 28 September, Dols arrived in Putten where a raid by the Germans took place two days later.
After the war, his dissertation was prepared for the press with the support of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.