Wilberforce may refer to:

People

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 People with the surname include: * William Wilberforce (1759–1 ...

, for people (and fictional characters) with the name ** William Wilberforce (1759–1833), British politician, evangelical reformer and campaigner against the slave trade

Places

Australia

* Wilberforce, New South Wales ** Wilberforce Cemetery **

Wilberforce Park Wilberforce Park is a heritage-listed public parkland at 47 George Road, Wilberforce, City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia. It was first established in 1810 by Governor Lachlan Macquarie and surveyed by James Meehan in 1811. It is a ...

Canada

* Wilberforce, Ontario * Wilberforce Colony, Ontario; an 18th-century colony of American Black citizens *

Kattimannap Qurlua Kattimannap Qurlua, formerly Wilberforce Falls, is an almost tall waterfall located in the Wilberforce Gorge of the Hood River in Nunavut, Canada. The falls are one of the few major waterfalls in the world north of the Arctic Circle. Name The w ...

(formerly Wilberforce Falls), in Wilberforce Gorge, Nunavut * North Algona Wilberforce, a township in Renfrew County, Ontario; formed from North Algona and Wilberforce Townships

United Kingdom

Wilberforce House Wilberforce House is a British historic house museum, part of the Museums Quarter of Kingston-upon-Hull. It is the birthplace of social reformer William Wilberforce (1759–1833), who used his time as a member of Parliament to work for the ab ...

, the birthplace of William Wilberforce, in Hull, England *

Wilberforce Way The Wilberforce Way is a walking route between Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire and York. The walk has been devised so that it can be walked in its entirety or as thirteen smaller walks. It has been described as having sufficient places of ...

, a walking route between Hull and York, England *

Wilberfoss Wilberfoss is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the north side of the A1079 approximately east of York city centre and north-west of Market Weighton. According to the 2011 UK census, Wilb ...

, East Riding of Yorkshire, England * Wilberforce Oak, a tree stump near

Holwood House Holwood House is a country house in Keston, near Hayes, in the London Borough of Bromley, England. The house was designed by Decimus Burton, built between 1823 and 1826 and is in the Greek Revival style. It was built for John Ward who later em ...

, Keston, England

Other

* Wilberforce, Ohio, United States *

Wilberforce, Sierra Leone Wilberforce is a neighborhood in Freetown, Sierra Leone. It is home to the Wilberforce military barracks, one of the largest in the country and the main barracks of the Sierra Leone military. Wilberforce is also home to several foreign embassies, i ...

Wilberforce River The Wilberforce River is a river in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. It is located in western Canterbury and is naturally a tributary of the Rakaia River, but like the Harper River, it has had some of its flow diverted into Lake Coleridge as p ...

, in the Southern Alps of New Zealand

Education

* Wilberforce College, in Hull, England *

Wilberforce Institute The Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation is a research institute at the University of Hull, in Kingston upon Hull, England. Housed in Oriel Chambers in Hull City Centre, since 2005, its aim is to research slavery in the ...

, research institute at the University of Hull, England *

Wilberforce School , motto_translation = Grace and Truth , address = 75 Mapleton Road, Building Two , city = Princeton , county = Mercer County , state = New Jersey , zipcode = 08540 , country ...

, in Princeton Junction, New Jersey * Wilberforce University, in Wilberforce, Ohio *

Central State University Central State University (CSU) is a public, historically black land-grant university in Wilberforce, Ohio. It is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Established by the state legislature in 1887 as a two-year program for te ...

, a public, historically black university in Wilberforce, Ohio (formerly Wilberforce State University)

Other uses

* Wilberforce (cat), who lived at 10 Downing Street between 1973 and 1987 * Wilberforce pendulum