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Wilbur (name)

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

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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, actor and stuntman
  • Jay Wilbur (1898–1970), British bandleader
  • John Wilbur (disambiguation)
  • Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875–1945), American doctor, president of Stanford University and United States Secretary of the Interior
  • Richard Wilbur (born 1921), United States Poet Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
  • 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 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 known for restructuring failed companies
  • Wilbur Schramm (1907–1987), American journalist and academic sometimes called the "father of communication studies"
  • Wilbur Shaw (1902–1954), American racing driver
  • Wilbur Smith (born 1933), South African novelist
  • 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

    • 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 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

    • References

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