Wilberforce
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Wilberforce can refer to:
- the family name of several prominent English men:
- William Wilberforce, who successfully fought against the slave trade, and
- Samuel Wilberforce, his son, a bishop who debated the theory of evolution with Thomas Henry Huxley.
- Robert Isaac Wilberforce, his son, a clergyman, Catholic convert and writer.
- Henry William Wilberforce, his youngest son, a Catholic convert, journalist and author
- Richard Wilberforce, great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce (the slave trade abolitionist), famous law lord from the House of Lords.
- several places:
- Wilberforce, New South Wales, a suburb in Sydney, Australia
- Wilberforce, Ohio
- Wilberforce, Ontario
- Wilberforce Colony, 18th century colony of American Black citizens
- Wilberforce Falls in Canada
- Wilberforce, Sierra Leone
- and also:
- Wilberforce University
- Wilberforce, the Downing Street mouser
- Wilberforce, a band named after the Downing Street cat
- Wilbur Force, sometimes misattributed as Wilberforce, is a character in The Little Shop of Horrors.
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