Wilberforce (name)
Wilberforce is a name, both a surname and a given name. It is also the name of an English family, including William Wilberforce. Notable people with the name include:
People
Surname
Given name
People with the given name include:- Wilberforce Eames, American bibliographer and librarian
- Wilberforce Eaves, Australian-born tennis player from the United Kingdom
- Wilberforce Echezona, Nigerian musicologist and teacher
- Wilberforce Juta, Nigerian politician
- Wilberforce Kityo Luwalira, Ugandan Anglican bishop
- Wilberforce Mfum, Ghanaian footballer
- Wilberforce Kisamba Mugerwa, Ugandan agricultural economist, politician and academic
- Wilberforce Ocran, Ghanaian professional footballer in the United Kingdom
- Wilberforce Talel, Kenyan runner
Middle name
People with the middle name include:- A. Wilberforce Williams, African American physician, teacher, and journalist.
- Ronald Wilberforce Allen, English lawyer and Liberal politician
- Samuel Wilberforce Awuku-Darko, Ghanaian accountant and politician
- Vincent Wilberforce Baddeley, British civil servant
- William Wilberforce Bird (merchant), British merchant, civil servant and author; Member of Parliament for Coventry
- * William Wilberforce Bird (governor), his son; British colonial administrator, Deputy Governor of Bengal, and Governor-General of India
- Edwin Wilberforce Carrington, Tobagonian diplomat; former Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community
- Henry Wilberforce Clarke, British translator of Persian works
- Charles Wilberforce Daniels, British physician
- William Gabula, the reigning Kyabazinga of Busoga, a constitutional kingdom in modern-day Uganda
- William Wilberforce Harris Greathed, British senior officer in the Bengal Engineers
- Francis Wilberforce Joaque, Sierra Leonean photographer
- Arthur Wilberforce Jose, English-Australian historian and editor
- George Wilberforce Kakoma, Ugandan musician who wrote Uganda's national anthem
- James Wilberforce Longley, Canadian journalist, lawyer, politician, and judge
- William Wilberforce Newton, American Episcopalian divine and author
- Harold Wilberforce Hindmarsh Stephen, Australian politician
- James Wilberforce Stephen, Australian politician
Fictional characters
- Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries, a character in the 1970s British sitcom Are You Being Served?
- Mr. Wilberforce, a character in the children's novel, Under the Mountain, by Maurice Gee
- The Wilberforces, antagonists in the New Zealand children's TV horror-sci-fi show Under the Mountain, based on the novel by Maurice Gee
- Mrs. Louisa Wilberforce, one of the main characters in the film The Ladykillers
- Wilberforce Thornapple, a character in the comic strip The Born Loser
- Mayor Wilberforce Cranklepot, a character in Blinky Bill the Movie and The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill
- Bertie Wooster, a character in the comedic Jeeves stories
- Colonel Sir Harold Wilberforce Clifton, main character of the Franco-Belgian comics series Clifton
- Colonel Wilberforce Buckshot, a character in the Laurel and Hardy film Another Fine Mess