Wilberforce (name)

For other uses, see Wilberforce (disambiguation).

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

People with the surname include:

• William Wilberforce (1759–1833), British politician, evangelical reformer and campaigner against the slave trade
  • Barbara Wilberforce (1777–1847), wife of William
  • William Wilberforce (1798–1879), first and eldest son of William, a lawyer and Member of Parliament
  • Robert Wilberforce (1802–1857), second son of William, a clergyman, Catholic convert and writer
    • Lionel Wilberforce (1861–1944), British physicist, grandson of Robert and inventor of the Wilberforce pendulum
    • Herbert Wilberforce (1864–1941), British male tennis player, grandson of Robert and chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
  • Samuel Wilberforce (1805–1873), third son of William, a bishop who debated the theory of evolution with Thomas Henry Huxley
    • Ernest Wilberforce (1840–1907), Anglican bishop and third son of Samuel
    • Basil Wilberforce (1841–1916), Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Westminster and fourth and youngest son of Samuel
    • Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce (1907–2003), great-grandson of Samuel, Law Lord
  • Henry Wilberforce (1807–1873), fourth and youngest son of William, Catholic convert, journalist and author
• Marion Wilberforce (1902–1995), aviator
• Octavia Wilberforce (1888–1963), English physician
• Robert Wilberforce (cricketer) (1910–1987), Australian cricketer
• Susan Wilberforce, suspect in the 1987 murder of Simon Dale; great-great-granddaughter of William Wilberforce

Given name

People with the given name include:

• Wilberforce Eames (1855–1937), American bibliographer and librarian
• Wilberforce Eaves (1867–1920), Australian-born tennis player from the United Kingdom
• Wilberforce Echezona, Nigerian musicologist and teacher
• Wilberforce Juta (1944–2020), Nigerian politician
• Wilberforce Kityo Luwalira (born 1958), Ugandan Anglican bishop
• Wilberforce Mfum (born 1936), retired Ghanaian footballer
• Wilberforce Kisamba Mugerwa (1945–2021), Ugandan agricultural economist, politician and academic
• Wilberforce Ocran (born 1999), English professional footballer
• Wilberforce Talel (born 1980), Kenyan runner

Middle name

People with the middle name include:

• A. Wilberforce Williams (1865–1940), African American physician, teacher, and journalist.
• Ronald Wilberforce Allen (1889–1936), English lawyer and Liberal politician
• Samuel Wilberforce Awuku-Darko (1924–?), Ghanaian accountant and politician
• Vincent Wilberforce Baddeley (1874–1961), British civil servant
• William Wilberforce Bird (merchant) (1758–1836), British merchant, civil servant and author; Member of Parliament for Coventry
  • William Wilberforce Bird (governor) (1784–1857), 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 (1840–1905), British translator of Persian works
• Charles Wilberforce Daniels (1862–1927), British physician
• William Gabula (William Wilberforce Gabula Nadiope IV; born 1988), the reigning Kyabazinga of Busoga, a constitutional kingdom in modern-day Uganda
• William Wilberforce Harris Greathed (1826–1878), British senior officer in the Bengal Engineers
• Arthur Wilberforce Jose (1863–1934), English-Australian historian and editor
• George Wilberforce Kakoma (1923–2012), Ugandan musician who wrote Uganda's national anthem
• James Wilberforce Longley (1849–1922), Canadian journalist, lawyer, politician, and judge
• William Wilberforce Newton (1843–1914), American Episcopalian divine and author
• Harold Wilberforce Hindmarsh Stephen (1841–1889), Australian politician
• James Wilberforce Stephen (1822–1881), 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 (Bertram Wilberforce 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

See also

• Wilberforce (cat), who lived at 10 Downing Street between 1973 and 1987
• Wilberforce (disambiguation)