Wilbur (name)

Wilbur is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname[]

• Cornelia B. Wilbur (1908–1992), American psychiatrist
• Crane Wilbur (1886–1973), American writer, actor and director of stage, radio and screen
• Curtis D. Wilbur (1867–1954), US Secretary of the Navy and Chief Justice of California
• George P. Wilbur (born 1941), actor and stuntman
• Jay Wilbur (1898–1970), British bandleader
• John Wilbur (disambiguation)
• Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875–1949), American doctor, president of Stanford University and United States Secretary of the Interior
• Richard Wilbur (1921–2017), United States Poet Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Sylvia Wilbur (born 1938), British computer scientist
• Todd Wilbur, American cookbook author
• William Wilbur, New York politician
• William H. Wilbur (1888–1979), US Army brigadier general

Given name[]

• Wilbur Cave, American politician from South Carolina
• Wilbur Clark (1908–1965), American businessman and owner of hotels and casinos
• Wilbur Cobb (1929–2020), American jazz drummer
• Wilbur J. Cohen (1913–1987), American social scientist and, as a civil servant, one of the key architects of the welfare state
• Wilbur Cooper (1892–1973), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Wilbur Lucius Cross (1862–1948), American educator and Governor of Connecticut
• Wilbur Good (1885–1963), Major League Baseball player
• Wilbur Jackson (born 1951), American collegiate and National Football League running back
• Wilbur MacDonald (born 1933), Canadian politician
• Wilbur Mills (1909–1992), influential member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas
• Wilbur Ross (born 1937), American investor and 39th Secretary of Commerce
• Wilbur Schramm (1907–1987), American journalist and academic sometimes called the "father of communication studies"
• Wilbur Shaw (1902–1954), American racing driver
• Wilbur Smith (1933–2021), South African novelist
• Wilbur Soot (born 1996), English YouTuber, Twitch streamer, and musician
• Wilbur Sweatman (1882–1961), African-American ragtime and dixieland jazz composer, bandleader and clarinetist
• Wilbur Ware (1923–1979), American jazz double-bassist
• Wilbur Wood (born 1941), former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Wilbur Wright (1867–1912), one of the two brothers generally credited with inventing the first successful airplane
• Wilbur Young (1949–2014), American football player

Fictional characters[]

• Wilbur, the pig who is the main character in the book Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
• Wilbur Grey, a character portrayed by Lou Costello in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
• Wilbur T. Huggins, the principal of Royal Woods Elementary School in The Loud House
• Wilbur Mercer, a prophetic character from the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
• Wilbur Post, Mister Ed's owner
• Wilbur Robinson, a character from Disney's Meet the Robinsons
• Wilbur Turnblad, a character from the Broadway musical Hairspray and its 2007 film adaptation
• Wilbur Whateley, an antagonist in H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror
• Wilbur the Wildcat, the athletic mascot of the University of Arizona
• Wilbur Wonka, Willy Wonka’s father and a dentist in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)
• Wilbur, Orville's younger brother and a pilot for Dodo Airlines in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

See also[]

• Wilber (given name)
• Wilber (surname)

Name list

This page or section lists people that share the same given name or the same family name.
If an led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.