Wilson may refer to:

People

* Wilson (name) ** List of people with given name Wilson **

List of people with surname Wilson Wilson is a common English-language surname. Notable people with the surname include: A *A. D. Wilson (1844–1920), American cartographer *A. N. Wilson (born 1950), English writer and newspaper columnist *Aarik Wilson (born 1982), American lo ...

* Wilson (footballer, 1927–1998), Brazilian manager and defender * Wilson (footballer, born 1984), full name Wilson Rodrigues de Moura Júnior, Brazilian goalkeeper * Wilson (footballer, born 1985), full name Wilson Rodrigues Fonseca, Brazilian forward * Wilson (footballer, born 1975), full name Wilson Roberto dos Santos, Brazilian centre-back

Places

Australia

* Wilson, South Australia *

Wilson, Western Australia Wilson is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Canning on the north bank of the Canning River The Canning River (Djarlgarra in Nyungar) is a major tributary of the Swan River in the South West Land Divisio ...

Wilson Inlet Wilson Inlet is a shallow, seasonally open estuary located on the coast of the Great Southern region of Western Australia. Description The inlet receives water from the two main rivers: the Denmark River and the Hay River and some smaller ...

, Western Australia * Wilson Reef, Queensland *

Wilsons Promontory Wilsons Promontory, is a peninsula that forms the southernmost part of the Australian mainland, located in the state of Victoria. South Point at is the southernmost tip of Wilsons Promontory and hence of mainland Australia. Located at nea ...

, Victoria, Australia, and hence: :*

Wilsons Promontory Islands Important Bird Area The Wilsons Promontory Islands Important Bird Area comprises a loose cluster of 19 small, granite islands, with a collective area of 658 ha, scattered around Wilsons Promontory in the state of Victoria, south-eastern Australia. The three so ...

:* Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse :*

Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park The Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park is a protected marine national park located in the South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The marine park is situated off the southern tip of Wilsons Promontory and extends along the coastline ...

Wilsons Promontory National Park The Wilsons Promontory National Park, commonly known as Wilsons Prom or The Prom, is a national park in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, located approximately southeast of Melbourne. The national park is the southernmost national ...

Canada

Wilson Avenue (Toronto) Wilson may refer to: People * Wilson (name) ** List of people with given name Wilson ** List of people with surname Wilson * Wilson (footballer, 1927–1998), Brazilian manager and defender * Wilson (footballer, born 1984), full name Wilson R ...

, Ontario ** Wilson (TTC) subway station ** Wilson Subway Yard

Poland

* Wilson Square (''Plac Wilsona''), in Warsaw

United Kingdom

* Wilson, Leicestershire * The Wilson (Cheltenham), Gloucestershire

United States

* Wilson, Arkansas * Wilson, Indiana * The Wilson (Indianapolis, Indiana), listed on the NRHP in Indiana * Wilson, Kansas * Wilson, Louisiana * Wilson (town), New York ** Wilson (village), New York, in the town * Wilson, North Carolina * Wilson, Ohio *

Wilson, Oklahoma Wilson is a town in Carter County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,724 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Ardmore, Oklahoma Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is home to one of the oldest Assemblies of God churches in Oklahoma ...

* Wilson, Pennsylvania * Wilson, South Carolina * Wilson, Texas * Wilson, Comanche County, Texas, an unincorporated community * Wilson, Kaufman County, Texas, an unincorporated community * Wilson, Utah, a former unincorporated community *

Wilson, Wisconsin (disambiguation) Wilson is the name of some places in the U.S. state of Wisconsin: * Wilson, Dunn County, Wisconsin, a town * Wilson, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, a town ** Wilson (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community * Wilson, Lincoln County, Wiscons ...

, several places *

Wilson, Wyoming Wilson is a census-designated place (CDP) in Teton County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 1,567 at the 2020 census, up from 1,482 in 2010. It is part of the Jackson, WY– ID Micropolitan Statistical Area. Wilson was pioneered ...

* Wilson Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line) subway station in New York City *

Mouth of Wilson, Virginia Mouth of Wilson is an unincorporated community, in Grayson County in the U.S. state of Virginia, just north of the North Carolina state line. The community lies in the Blue Ridge Highlands section of the Blue Ridge Mountains which are part of wha ...

* Mount Wilson, California

Lists of places with Wilson in the name

* Lake Wilson (disambiguation) * List of peaks named Mount Wilson * Wilson County (disambiguation) * Wilson Township (disambiguation)

Science

Botany and zoology

Wilson's bird-of-paradise Wilson's bird-of-paradise (''Cicinnurus respublica'') is a species of passerine bird of the family Paradisaeidae. The first footage of the Wilson's bird-of-paradise ever to be filmed was recorded in 1996 by David Attenborough for the BBC documen ...

Wilson's magnolia ''Magnolia wilsonii'', or Wilson's magnolia, is a species of ''Magnolia'' native to China, in the provinces of western Guizhou, Sichuan and northern Yunnan, where it grows in the forest understory at altitudes of 1,900-3,000 m, rarely up to 3,300 ...

(''Magnolia wilsonii'') *

Wilson's phalarope Wilson's phalarope (''Phalaropus tricolor'') is a small wader. This bird, the largest of the phalaropes, breeds in the prairies of North America in western Canada and the western United States. It is migratory, wintering in inland salt lakes ...

Wilson's plover Wilson's plover (''Charadrius wilsonia'') is a small bird of the family Charadriidae. It was named after the Scottish-American ornithologist Alexander Wilson by his friend George Ord in 1814. Wilson's plover is a coastal wader which breeds o ...

Wilson's snipe Wilson's snipe (''Gallinago delicata'') is a small, stocky shorebird. The genus name ''gallinago'' is New Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin ''gallina'', "hen" and the suffix ''-ago'', "resembling". The specific ''delicata'' is Latin for "d ...

* Wilson's spiny mouse *

Wilson's storm petrel Wilson's storm petrel (''Oceanites oceanicus''), also known as Wilson's petrel, is a small seabird of the austral storm petrel family Oceanitidae. It is one of the most abundant bird species in the world and has a circumpolar distribution mainly ...

Wilson's warbler Wilson's warbler (''Cardellina pusilla'') is a small New World warbler. It is greenish above and yellow below, with rounded wings and a long, slim tail. The male has a black crown patch; depending on the subspecies, that mark is reduced or absent ...

Medicine

Wilson's disease Wilson's disease is a genetic disorder in which excess copper builds up in the body. Symptoms are typically related to the brain and liver. Liver-related symptoms include vomiting, weakness, fluid build up in the abdomen, swelling of the legs, ...

, a hereditary disease characterized by the accumulation of copper in tissue *

Wilson's temperature syndrome Wilson's (temperature) syndrome, also called Wilson's thyroid syndrome or WTS, is a term used in alternative medicine to attribute various common and non-specific symptoms to abnormally low body temperature and impaired conversion of thyroxine ( ...

, a contested form of thyroid deficiency in alternative medicine circles

Physics

Wilson action In lattice field theory, the Wilson action is a discrete formulation of the Yang–Mills action, forming the foundation of lattice gauge theory. Rather than using Lie algebra valued gauge fields as the fundamental parameters of the theory, grou ...

, lattice discretization of gauge fields *

Wilson loop In quantum field theory, Wilson loops are gauge invariant operators arising from the parallel transport of gauge variables around closed loops. They encode all gauge information of the theory, allowing for the construction of loop representat ...

, loop operator in quantum field theory

Companies

* Wilson (company), Norwegian shipping company *

Wilson Combat Wilson Combat is a custom pistol manufacturer located in Berryville, Arkansas, that specializes in customizing and manufacturing M1911A1s. First started under the name "Wilson's Gun Shop" in 1977, Bill Wilson started his new gunsmith business in th ...

, American firearms company * Wilson's (Mint Cake), one of three companies that manufacture Kendal mint cake *

Wilson Parking Wilson Parking () is a Hong Kong-based car parking management company. It first opened for business in Perth, Western Australia in 1962, currently operates in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and Mainland China. In Hong Kong, it ...

, Hong Kong-based car parking management company *

Wilson Security Wilson Security is an Australian private security company. In 2014 it acquired the security contracts of ISS A/S Security in Australia and First Security Business in New Zealand. Wilson Security is a part of the Wilson Group which is Hong Kong ow ...

, Australian private security company *

Wilson Sporting Goods The Wilson Sporting Goods Company is an American sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois. The company has been a subsidiary of Finnish multinational company Amer Sports since 1989, and is, in turn, now under the Chinese Anta Spor ...

, American sports equipment manufacturer * H. J. Wilson Co., aka Wilson's, a defunct catalog showroom chain * O. G. Wilson, a defunct catalog showroom chain owned by

Zale Corporation The Zale Corporation is an American jewelry retailer, incorporated in Delaware in 1993. The principal executive offices are located in Coppell, Texas. History The company began in 1924 in Wichita Falls, Texas, when the two Russian-Jewish imm ...

* Wilson's (department store), a department store in Massachusetts * Wilson's Leather

Fictional characters

* Sergeant Arthur Wilson, from the TV show ''Dad's Army'' * Wilson (''Home Improvement''), from the TV show ''Home Improvement'' * James Wilson (''House''), from the TV show ''House'' * George Everett Wilson, from the comic strip ''Dennis the Menace'' * Wilson the Wonder Athlete, from the British story papers and comics published by D.C. Thomson & Co. * Wilson the Volleyball, from the film ''Cast Away'' * Wilson, king in the

Gamehendge Gamehendge is the fictional setting for a number of songs by the rock band Phish. Most of the songs can be traced back to '' The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday'' (or TMWSIY), the senior project of guitarist and primary vocalist Trey Anastasio, writt ...

saga by the rock band Phish * Wilson, a red diesel engine from the TV series ''

Chuggington ''Chuggington'' (also known as ''Chuggington: Tales from the Rails'' since series six) is a British computer-animated children's television series aimed at toddlers, produced by Ludorum PLC (Series 1–5) and Herschend Entertainment Studios (s ...

'' * Wilson, the main character from the video game ''

Don't Starve ''Don't Starve'' is a survival video game developed by the Canadian indie video game developer Klei Entertainment. The game was initially released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux on April 23, 2013. A PlayStation 4 port, renamed ''Do ...

'' * Wilson, the dog of Jim in '' Friday Night Dinner''

Other uses

* ''Wilson'' (1944 film), a biographical film about Woodrow Wilson * ''Wilson'' (2017 film), a film directed by Craig Johnson, based on Daniel Clowes's graphic novel * Wilson (band), an American rock band * ''Wilson'' (book), a 2013 biography of Woodrow Wilson by A. Scott Berg * ''Wilson'' (comics), a 2010 graphic novel by Daniel Clowes *

Wilson (crater) Wilson is a lunar impact crater that lies in the southern part of the Moon's near side, to the southwest of the large walled plain Clavius Christopher Clavius, SJ (25 March 1538 – 6 February 1612) was a Jesuit German mathematician, he ...

, a lunar crater * "Wilson" (''House'' episode), a television episode * " Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)", a song by Fall Out Boy * Wilson gearbox, or preselector gearbox *

Wilson Ornithological Society The Wilson Ornithological Society (WOS) is an ornithological organization that was formally established in 1886 as the Wilson Ornithological Chapter of the Agassiz Association. It is based at the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ...

Wilson's School Wilson's School is a state boys' grammar school with academy status in the London Borough of Sutton, England. It was founded as Wilson's Grammar School in Camberwell in 1615, making it one of the country's oldest state schools. The school move ...

, boys' grammar school in Wallington, London, UK * Wilson, the nickname of the first deployment of

The Ocean Cleanup The Ocean Cleanup is a nonprofit environmental engineering organization based in the Netherlands, that develops technology to extract plastic pollution from the oceans and intercept it in rivers before it can reach the ocean. After initial t ...

* Wilson score