Wilberforce

Wilberforce may refer to:

People

• Ernest Wilberforce (1840–1907), Anglican clergyman and bishop and the son of Samuel Wilberforce
• Henry William Wilberforce (1807–1873), the youngest son of William Wilberforce, Catholic convert, journalist and author
• Lionel Robert Wilberforce (1861–1944), British physicist, great-grandson of William Wilberforce and inventor of the Wilberforce pendulum
• Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce (1907–2003), great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce, famous Law Lord
• Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802–1857), second oldest son of William Wilberforce, a clergyman, Catholic convert and writer
• Samuel Wilberforce (1805–1873), third oldest son of William Wilberforce, a bishop who debated the theory of evolution with Thomas Henry Huxley
• William Wilberforce (1759–1833), British politician, evangelical reformer and campaigner against the slave trade

Places

• Wilberforce, New South Wales, Australia
• Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada
• Wilberforce Falls, Wilberforce Gorge, Wilberforce Hills: Nunavut, Canada
• Wilberforce, Ohio, United States
• Wilberforce, Sierra Leone
• Wilberforce Colony, 18th century colony of American Black citizens
• Wilberforce, Berlin, Germany; 19th Century

Fictional characters

• "Wilberforce" is the middle name of Bertie Wooster, a character in the novels of P. G. Wodehouse
• Mr. Wilberforce, a character in the children's novel, Under the Mountain, by Maurice Gee
• Mrs. Louisa Wilberforce is one of the main characters in the film "The Ladykillers".
• The "Wilberforces" were the antagonists in the New Zealand children's TV horror-sci-fi show Under the Mountain
• "Wilberforce" is the name of a character in the comic strip The Born Loser.
• Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries, a character in the 1970s British sitcom Are You Being Served?

Other

• Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, Ohio
• Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull, England
• Wilberforce (cat), a cat who lived at 10 Downing Street between 1973 and 1987

See also

• Wilbur Force, sometimes misattributed as Wilberforce, is a character in The Little Shop of Horrors
• Wilberforce pendulum