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 William Wilberforce (24 August 175929 July 1833) was a British politician, philanthropist and leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. A native of Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, he began his political career in 1780, eventually becom ...

(1759–1833), British politician, evangelical reformer and campaigner against the slave trade

Places

Australia

* Wilberforce, New South Wales **

Wilberforce Cemetery Wilberforce Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at Clergy Road, Wilberforce, City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia. It was laid out by surveyor James Meehan and established in 1811. It is also known as St John's Church of England ...

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 Wilberforce Colony was a colony established in the year 1829 by free African American citizens, north of present-day London, Ontario, Canada. It was an effort by American Blacks to create a place where they could live in political freedom. When Am ...

, 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 Wilberforce is a census-designated place (CDP) in Greene County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,271 at the 2010 census, up from 1,579 at the 2000 census. History After Wilberforce College was established in 1856, the community was a ...

, 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 Wilberforce University is a private historically black university in Wilberforce, Ohio. Affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), it was the first college to be owned and operated by African Americans. It participates in t ...

, 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) Wilberforce ( – 19 May 1988) was a cat living at 10 Downing Street who was employed as the chief mouser to the Cabinet Office from 1973 to 1987. He served throughout the premierships of four prime ministers: Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Jame ...

, who lived at 10 Downing Street between 1973 and 1987 *

Wilberforce pendulum A Wilberforce pendulum, invented by British physicist Lionel Robert Wilberforce around 1896, consists of a mass suspended by a long helical spring and free to turn on its vertical axis, twisting the spring. It is an example of a coupled mechanica ...