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• Alan Wilson (rugby league)
  Alan Wilson (rugby league)
  Alan Wilson is an Australian former rugby league footballer. The son of Australian Kangaroos player, Graham Wilson, he is a former member of the Cronulla Sharks team.-Career:...
  
  , Australian rugby league footballer
• Alex Wilson (athlete) (1905–1994), Canadian track and field athlete
• Alexander Wilson
  Alexander Wilson
  Alexander Wilson was a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator.Wilson was born in Paisley, Scotland, the son of an illiterate distiller. In 1779 he was apprenticed as a weaver. His main interest at this time was in writing poetry...
  
   (1776–1813), American ornithologist
  • Alexander Wilson (Australian politician)
    Alexander Wilson (Australian politician)
    Alexander Wilson was an Australian wheat farmer and politician.-Biography:Born in County Down, Ireland, he was educated at Belfast and migrated to Australia in 1908, becoming a farmer at Ultima, Victoria. He was prominent as a leader of Victorian wheatgrowers...
    
    , former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
  • Alexander Wilson (U.S. Representative)
    Alexander Wilson (U.S. Representative)
    Alexander Wilson was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.Born in Virginia, Wilson completed preparatory studies...
    
    , U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1803–1809
  • Alexander Wilson (writer) (1953–1993), Canadian writer, landscape designer, and community activist
  • Alex Wilson (athlete), Canadian athlete
  • Alex Wilson (musician)
    Alex Wilson (musician)
    Alex Wilson is a pianist, composer, producer, arranger, and educator. He is a respected British Latin jazz recording artist and composer.-Biography:...
    
    , English salsa and Latin jazz pianist
  • Alexander Wilson (British Army officer)
    Alexander Wilson (British Army officer)
    Major-General Sir Alexander Wilson KCB was a senior British army officer, Colonel of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and Lieutenant Governor of Jersey between the years 1916 and 1920.-Military career:...
    
    , Lieutenant Governor of Jersey
    Lieutenant Governor of Jersey
    The Lieutenant Governor of Jersey is the representative of the British monarch in the Bailiwick of Jersey, a Crown dependency of the British Crown....
    
    
  • Alexander Wilson (Vauxhall), founder of Vauxhall Motors
    Vauxhall Motors
    Vauxhall Motors is a British automotive company owned by General Motors and headquartered in Luton. It was founded in 1857 as a pump and marine engine manufacturer, began manufacturing cars in 1903 and was acquired by GM in 1925. It has been the second-largest selling car brand in the UK for...
    
    
  • Alexander Wilson (Wisconsin politician)
    Alexander Wilson (Wisconsin politician)
    Alexander Wilson was an American lawyer.Born in Westfield, New York, Wilson graduated from Union College. Wilson then moved to Dubuque, Iowa, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He then moved to Mineral Point, Wisconsin to practice law. He served as district attorney of Iowa County,...
    
    , attorney general of Wisconsin, 1878–1882
• Allan Wilson (army officer)
  Allan Wilson (army officer)
  Allan Wilson , was born in Scotland. He is best known for his leadership of the Shangani Patrol which resulted in his death and made him a national hero in Rhodesia....
  
   (1856–1893), British soldier
• Andrew Wilson (disambiguation), one of several people, including:
  • Andrew Wilson (academic), Unificationist theologian
  • Andrew Wilson (actor)
    Andrew Wilson (actor)
    Andrew Cunningham Wilson is an American film actor and director. He is the older brother of actors Owen and Luke Wilson.-External links:...
    
     (1964-), American actor, brother of Luke and Owen Wilson
  • Andrew Wilson (historian)
    Andrew Wilson (historian)
    Andrew Wilson is a historian and political scientist specializing in Eastern Europe, particularly Ukraine. He is a senior lecturer in Ukrainian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London...
    
     (1961-), British historian
  • Andrew Wilson (musician), frontman for New Zealand punk trio Die! Die! Die!
    Die! Die! Die!
    Die! Die! Die! is a noise pop/punk three-piece from Dunedin, New Zealand, formed in late 2003 and signed to Flying Nun Records.Their self-titled album Die! Die! Die! was released in 2005 in New Zealand, with an international release soon after. It was recorded in Chicago's Electrical Audio by...
    
    
  • Andrew Wilson (RAF officer)
    Andrew Wilson (RAF officer)
    Air Chief Marshal Sir Ronald Andrew Fellowes Wilson KCB AFC FRAes RAF often known as Sir Andrew Wilson and sometimes known informally as Sir Sandy Wilson is a retired senior Royal Air Force officer.-RAF career:...
    
    , Royal Air Force commander
  • Andrew Wilson (writer) (A. N. Wilson, 1950-), English author
• Angus Wilson
  Angus Wilson
  Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, CBE was an English novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1958 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot and later received a knighthood for his services to literature.-Biography:Wilson was born in Bexhill, Sussex, England, to...
  
  , British author
• Ann Wilson
  Ann Wilson
  Ann Dustin Wilson is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, flute player, songwriter, and occasional guitar player of the rock band Heart.-Personal life:...
  
   (b. 1950), Lead singer for American rock band Heart, sister of Nancy Wilson
• Anne Wilson
  Anne Wilson
  Lady Anne Wilson was an Australian poet and novelist.Wilson was born in 1848 at Greenvale, Victoria, the daughter of Robert Adams. In 1874, she married James Glenny Wilson and went to New Zealand. Her husband, a well-known public man, was knighted in 1915...
  
  , Australian poet
• Anthony Wilson (ice hockey)
  Anthony Wilson (ice hockey)
  Anthony Wilson is an Australian semi-professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Sydney Ice Dogs in the Australian Ice Hockey League.-Playing career:...
  
  , Australian ice hockey player
• Anthony H. Wilson, record-label owner, nicknamed "Mr Manchester"
• Art Wilson
  Art Wilson
  Arthur Earl "Dutch" Wilson was a catcher in Major League Baseball.Wilson was the catcher for Cubs pitcher Hippo Vaughn during the "double no-hitter" game in 1917. The Cubs lost the game on an error by Wilson in the 10th inning.-References:...
  
  , American baseball player
• Arthur H. Wilson
  Arthur H. Wilson
  Arthur Harrison Wilson was an officer in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the Philippine-American War. He graduated from West Point in 1904.-Medal of Honor citation:...
  
  , Philippine-American War Medal of Honor recipient
• August Wilson
  August Wilson
  August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama...
  
  , American playwright

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• Barrie James Wilson, British rock drummer, see B.J. Wilson
  B.J. Wilson
  Barrie James "B.J." Wilson was an English rock drummer.-Career:Born in Edmonton, London, England, Wilson was the drummer for Procol Harum. He did not play on their first hit "A Whiter Shade of Pale" , but joined the group soon afterwards...
  
  
• Bartley Wilson, see Walter Bartley Wilson
  Walter Bartley Wilson
  Walter Bartley Wilson , was an artist, and is seen as the mainstay in the foundation of Cardiff City Football Club.-Childhood:...
  
  
• Benjamin Wilson (disambiguation)
  Benjamin Wilson (disambiguation)
  Benjamin or Ben Wilson may refer to:* Benjamin Davis Wilson , also known as Don Benito Wilson, prominent land-owner and politician in the early history of Southern California...
  
  , several people
• Bernard E. Wilson
  Bernard E. Wilson
  Bernard E. "Barney" Wilson was the head coach for the William & Mary Tribe men's basketball team from 1947-51. He led the Tribe to a 43-20 mark in Southern Conference play and 80-40 overall. Wilson holds the W&M all-time highest win percentage for men's basketball coaches who have coached 100+...
  
  , American college basketball coach
• Brent Wilson, American musician (Panic! at the Disco
  Panic! at the Disco
  Panic! at the Disco is an American alternative rock duo, formed in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2005. Since its split, the band's line-up includes Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith . Former members Ryan Ross and Jon Walker left the group in 2009...
  
  )
• Brian Wilson (disambiguation)
  Brian Wilson (disambiguation)
  Brian Wilson may refer to:*Brian Wilson , an American musician and one of the original members of The Beach Boys-Music:*Brian Wilson , the debut solo album by the American musician...
  
  , several people
  • Brian Wilson
    Brian Wilson
    Brian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...
    
     (born 1942), American musician and founding member of The Beach Boys
• Brittney Wilson
  Brittney Wilson
  Brittney Meriah Wilson is a Canadian actress. She was born in Chilliwack, British Columbia.-Movies:* Ice Blues - Lilah/Amy* Scar - Joan Burrows* Spymate - Jules* Connie and Carla - Young Carla...
  
  , Canadian actress

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• Cairine Wilson
  Cairine Wilson
  Cairine Reay Mackay Wilson was Canada's first female senator.-Early life:Born Cairine Reay Mackay in Montreal, she was the daughter of Jane Mackay and Robert Mackay, a Liberal Senator and personal friend of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. She attended Elmwood School and was "head girl" in her graduating year...
  
  , Canada's first female senator
• Carl Wilson
  Carl Wilson
  Carl Dean Wilson was an American rock and roll singer and guitarist, best known as a founding member, lead guitarist and sometime lead vocalist of The Beach Boys...
  
   (1946–1998), American rock and roll musician (The Beach Boys)
• Carnie Wilson
  Carnie Wilson
  Carnie Wilson is an American singer and television hostess, perhaps best known as a member of the pop music group Wilson Phillips.-Early life and musical career:...
  
   (1968– ), American singer and TV host; daughter of Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys)
• Charles Wilson (disambiguation), one of several people, including:
  • Charles Wilson (Canadian politician)
    Charles Wilson (Canadian politician)
    Charles Wilson was a Canadian businessman and politician.-Background:Wilson was born in Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec, son of a Scottish immigrant and a French-Canadian mother....
    
     (1808–1877) Quebec politician
  • Charles Wilson (journalist)
    Charles Wilson (journalist)
    Charles Wilson is a Scottish journalist and newspaper executive.Charlie Wilson was Managing Director of Mirror Group plc from 1992 to 1998, having been Editorial Director of Mirror Group Newspapers from 1991 to 1992...
    
    , Scottish-born editor of "The Times", 1985–1990
  • Charles Wilson (sailor)
    Charles Wilson (sailor)
    Charles Wilson was a sailor in the United States Navy during the American Civil War.-Biography:Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Wilson enlisted on October 15, 1861, at Chicago, Illinois. Assigned to the gunboat USS Carondelet—commanded by Commander Henry A...
    
     (1836-????), U.S. Navy sailor in the American Civil War
  • Charles Wilson (Texas politician) (1933–2010), U.S. Representative from Texas
  • Charles Wilson (train robber), member of the gang that executed the 1963 "Great Train Robbery"
  • Charles E. Wilson (executive)
    Charles E. Wilson (executive)
    Charles Edward Wilson was a CEO of General Electric. He left school at age 12 to work as a stock boy at Sprague Electrical Works, which was acquired by General Electric, taking night classes and working up to president in 1939.During World War II he served on the War Production Board as executive...
    
    , CEO of General Electric, head of the U.S. Office
  • Charles Erwin Wilson
    Charles Erwin Wilson
    Charles Erwin Wilson , American businessman and politician, was United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Eisenhower. Known as "Engine Charlie", he previously worked as CEO for General Motors. In the wake of the Korean War, he cut the defense budget significantly.-Early...
    
     (1890–1961), CEO of General Motors, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1953–1957
  • Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
    Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
    Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, CH, FRS was a Scottish physicist and meteorologist who received the Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cloud chamber.- Biography:...
    
     (1869–1959), physicist
  • Charlie Wilson (musician)
    Charlie Wilson (musician)
    Charles Kent "Charlie" Wilson is an American R&B singer-songwriter-producer and the former lead vocalist for the Gap Band. As a solo artist he has been nominated for four Grammy awards, received a 2009 Soul Train Icon Award, and a recipient of a BMI Icon Award in 2005...
    
    , African-American musician, Gap Band
  • Charlie Wilson (Ohio politician)
    Charlie Wilson (Ohio politician)
    Charles A. "Charlie" Wilson is the former U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the Ohio State Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives...
    
     (1943-), Ohio state senator of Defense Mobilization
• Chris Wilson (disambiguation)
  Chris Wilson (disambiguation)
  Chris Wilson or Christopher Wilson may refer to:* Chris Wilson , Australian blues musician* Chris Wilson , American drummer* Chris Wilson , UK-based US-born musician...
  
  , one of several people, including:
  • Chris Wilson (American football)
    Chris Wilson (American football)
    Chris Wilson is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He played for the British Columbia Lions of the Canadian Football League , where he spent two years, and for the Washington Redskins from 2007–2010. He was a member of the Philadelphia Eagles during the 2011...
    
    
  • Chris Wilson (blues musician), Australian blues musician
  • Chris Wilson (drummer)
    Chris Wilson (drummer)
    Christopher Ryan Wilson is the drummer for the band The Summer Obsession. Chris is formerly of the band Good Charlotte. In July 2010, It was confirmed that Chris would be filling in for Yuri Ruley of MxPx, after he decided to retire from the band-Notes:...
    
    , American drummer
  • Chris Wilson (pollster)
    Chris Wilson (pollster)
    Chris Wilson is a Republican American pollster and political strategist who has conducted hundreds of public opinion studies for over 100 of the Fortune 500, influential associations, foundations, elected leaders of the U.S. Senate, U.S...
    
    
• Christine Wilson,
• Clement Wilson (disambiguation), several people
• Colin Wilson (disambiguation)
  Colin Wilson (disambiguation)
  Colin Wilson is the name of:* Colin Wilson , British writer* Colin Wilson , comic book artist* Colin Wilson , Australian footballer* Colin Wilson , Scottish footballer...
  
  , several people

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• Daniel Wilson (bishop), bishop of Calcutta
• David Sloan Wilson
  David Sloan Wilson
  David Sloan Wilson is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He is a son of the author Sloan Wilson.-Academic career:...
  
  , American evolutionist
• David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn
  David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn
  David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, is a retired British administrator, diplomat and Sinologist. Lord Wilson of Tillyorn was the penultimate Commander-in-Chief and 27th Governor of Hong Kong...
  
  , Governor of Hong Kong
• Dennis Wilson
  Dennis Wilson
  Dennis Carl Wilson was an American rock and roll musician best known as a founding member and the drummer of The Beach Boys. He was a member of the group from its formation until his death in 1983...
  
   (1944–1983), American rock and roll musician (The Beach Boys)
• Derek Wilson
  Derek Wilson
  Derek J. Wilson is a New Zealand architect. He was active in Wellington. He is also known as an environmentalist, and has published several works.-Early years and private life:...
  
  , New Zealand architect
• Dolores Wilson
  Dolores Wilson
  Dolores Mae Wilson was an American coloratura soprano who had an active international opera career from the late 1940s through the early 1960s. Beginning her career with major theatres in Europe, she performed in six seasons at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City during the 1950s...
  
  , American opera singer and musical theatre actress
• Don Wilson
  Don Wilson (announcer)
  Don Wilson was an American announcer and occasional actor in radio and television, with a Falstaffian vocal presence, remembered best as the rotund announcer and comic foil to the star of The Jack Benny Program.-Career:...
  
  , radio announcer, "The Jack Benny
  Jack Benny
  Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudevillian, and actor for radio, television, and film...
  
   Show"

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• Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, wife of Woodrow Wilson
• Edmund Wilson
  Edmund Wilson
  Edmund Wilson was an American writer and literary and social critic and noted man of letters.-Early life:Wilson was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. His father, Edmund Wilson, Sr., was a lawyer and served as New Jersey Attorney General. Wilson attended The Hill School, a college preparatory...
  
  , American writer and literary critic
• Edmund Wilson, Sr.
  Edmund Wilson, Sr.
  Edmund Wilson, Sr. was an American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of New Jersey from 1908 until 1914. He was the father of literary critic Edmund Wilson....
  
  , American lawyer who served as the Attorney General of New Jersey
• Edmund Beecher Wilson
  Edmund Beecher Wilson
  Edmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most famous textbooks in the history of modern biology, The Cell.- Career :...
  
  , American zoologist and geneticist
• Edward Adrian Wilson
  Edward Adrian Wilson
  Edward Adrian Wilson was a notable English polar explorer, physician, naturalist, painter and ornithologist.-Early life:...
  
  , English polar explorer
• E. O. Wilson
  E. O. Wilson
  Edward Osborne Wilson is an American biologist, researcher , theorist , naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants....
  
   (Edward Osborne Wilson), American biologist known for his contributions to sociobiology
• Ellen Wilson (disambiguation), one of several people, including:
  • Ellen Axson Wilson, first wife of Woodrow Wilson,
  • Ellen Wilson (judoka)
    Ellen Wilson (judoka)
    Ellen Bernice Wilson is a female judoka from the United States, who won the silver medal in the women's lightweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She represented her native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney,...
    
    , American judoka
• Elinor Wilson
  Elinor Wilson
  Dr. Elinor Wilson is the current President of Assisted Human Reproduction Canada, appointed February 14, 2007 until February 13, 2012-Education:Dr. Elinor Wilson, PhD, MHSc, RN....
  
  , Canadian civil servant, President of Assisted Human Reproduction Canada
  Assisted Human Reproduction Canada
  Assisted Human Reproduction Canada is a federal regulatory agency that was established in 2006 to protect and promote the health, safety, dignity and rights of Canadians who use or are born of assisted human reproduction technologies...
  
  
• Ellis Wilson
  Ellis Wilson
  Ellis Wilson was an African American artist.Wilson was born in Mayfield, Kentucky. In 1916 he began attending Kentucky State College, moving in 1919 to study at the Chicago Art Institute. In 1928 he moved to Harlem, New York where he joined the Harlem Artists Guild and worked at a brokerage house...
  
   (1899–1977), American artist
• Emperatriz Wilson
  Emperatriz Wilson
  Emperatriz Wilson Traba is a retired female long-distance runner from Cuba. She represented her native country at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba, where she claimed the bronze medal in the women's marathon event behind Mexico's Olga Appell and compatriot Maribel Durruty...
  
  , Cuban long-distance runner
• Eric Wilson (disambiguation), several people
• Ernest Henry Wilson
  Ernest Henry Wilson
  Ernest Henry "Chinese" Wilson , better known as E. H. Wilson, was a notable English plant collector who introduced a large range of about 2000 of Asian plant species to the West; some sixty bear his name.-Career:...
  
  , American botanist and explorer

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• Frances C. Wilson
  Frances C. Wilson
  Frances C. Wilson is a retired lieutenant general of the United States Marine Corps, and is the immediate past president of the National Defense University.-Personal life and education:...
  
  , American general
• Frank Wilson (musician)
  Frank Wilson (musician)
  Frank Wilson is an African American former songwriter and record producer for Motown Records.-Biography:He was born to James Wilson and Samantha Gibbs...
  
  , American musician
• Frank Wilson (politician), Australian politician

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• Gahan Wilson
  Gahan Wilson
  Gahan Wilson is an American author, cartoonist and illustrator known for his cartoons depicting horror-fantasy situations...
  
  , American author and cartoonist
• Geoff Wilson (professor)
  Geoff Wilson (professor)
  Professor Geoff V. H. Wilson is an internationally distinguished nuclear physicist who made contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry and low temperature physics...
  
  , Australian nuclear physicist
• Genarlow Wilson, plaintiff in Wilson v. State of Georgia
  Wilson v. State of Georgia
  Wilson v. State, 652 S.E. 2d 501, 282 Ga. 520 was a Georgia court case brought about to appeal the aggravated child molestation conviction of Genarlow Wilson ....
  
  
• George Wilson (mayor)
  George Wilson (mayor)
  George Wilson , served as Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1860 to 1862.Wilson was born in Baltimore. He worked in a Tobacco plant and eventually went into business for himself. Wilson served as a City Councilman and as the Director of the Public School System...
  
  , Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• George Wilson
  George Wilson (chemist)
  George Wilson was Regius Professor of Technology at the University of Edinburgh, and the first Director of the Industrial Museum of Scotland....
  
   (1818–1859), Scottish chemist
  Chemist
  A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
  
   and museum director
• Graham Wilson
  Graham Wilson
  Graham Wilson was an Australian rugby league footballer of the 1960s. He played in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership for Newtown club and later Cronulla-Sutherland, also achieving state and international representative honours...
  
  , Australian rugby league footballer
• Grant Wilson
  Grant Wilson
  Grant Steven Wilson is the co-founder of The Atlantic Paranormal Society , which is based in Warwick, Rhode Island. He is also one of the stars and co-producers of Syfy's Ghost Hunters, which has just been renewed for its seventh season.-Personal life:He and his wife Reanna have three sons...
  
  , co-star/co-producer of the TV show Ghost Hunters
• Gretchen Wilson
  Gretchen Wilson
  Gretchen Frances Wilson is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party...
  
   (1973-), American country music singer
• G. M. Wilson, scientist in thermodynamics field, author of Wilson activity model

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• Hannah Wilson
  Hannah Wilson
  Hannah Wilson is a Hong Kong amateur swimmer. She is a two-time Olympic swimmer for Hong Kong, having swam at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens and the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in the Water Cube in Beijing. She has won two career Universiade gold medals...
  
   (1989–), Hong Kong swimmer
• Harold Wilson
  Harold Wilson
  James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Member of Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the...
  
   (1916–1995), former British Labour Prime Minister
• Harriette Wilson
  Harriette Wilson
  Harriette Wilson was a celebrated British Regency courtesan, whose clients included the Prince of Wales, the Lord Chancellor and four future Prime Ministers.- Life :...
  
   (1786–1845), courtesan
• Henry Wilson
  Henry Wilson
  Henry Wilson was the 18th Vice President of the United States and a Senator from Massachusetts...
  
   (1812–1875), American politician
• Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson
  Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson
  Field Marshal Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, GCB, GBE, DSO , also known as "Jumbo" Wilson, saw active service in the Second Boer War and First World War, and became a senior British general in the Middle East and Mediterranean during the Second World War...
  
   (1881–1964), British soldier
• Herbert Ward Wilson
  Herbert Ward Wilson
  Herbert Ward Wilson was an Australian science lecturer and naturalist.-Education:Wilson was born in England at Bradford, Yorkshire, but moved to Victoria, Australia, with his family in 1883, settling at Dimboola. There he attended school and late joined the Victorian Education Department as a...
  
   (1877–1955), Australian educator and naturalist
• Herbert Wrigley Wilson
  Herbert Wrigley Wilson
  Herbert Wrigley Wilson , known often only as H. W. Wilson, was a British journalist and naval historian.He was the eldest son of the Reverend George Edwin Wilson and, like three of his five brothers, became a journalist...
  
   (1866–1940), British journalist and naval historian
• Horace Hayman Wilson
  Horace Hayman Wilson
  Horace Hayman Wilson was an English orientalist.He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, and went out to India in 1808 as assistant-surgeon on the Bengal establishment of the British East India Company....
  
   (1786–1860), English orientalist

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• Jackie Wilson
  Jackie Wilson
  Jack Leroy "Jackie" Wilson, Jr. was an American singer and performer. Known as "Mr. Excitement", Wilson was important in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. He was known as a master showman, and as one of the most dynamic singers and performers in R&B and rock history...
  
   (1934–1984), American singer
• Jacqueline Wilson
  Jacqueline Wilson
  Dame Jacqueline Wilson, DBE, FRSL is an award-winning English author, known for her vast and diverse work in children's literature. Her novels have been adapted numerous times for television, and commonly deal with such challenging themes as adoption, divorce and mental illness...
  
  , English author
• James Wilson (disambiguation)
  James Wilson (disambiguation)
  James Wilson was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence.James Wilson may also refer to:-Politicians and government officials:...
  
  , several people, including:
  • James Wilson
    James Wilson
    James Wilson was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence. Wilson was elected twice to the Continental Congress, and was a major force in drafting the United States Constitution...
    
    , signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence
  • James Wilson (footballer)
    James Wilson (footballer)
    James Steven Wilson is a Wales Under-21 international footballer currently playing for Bristol City. Wilson is a central defender who can also play at right-back if required.-Career:...
    
    , a Welsh football player
  • James Wilson (revolutionary)
    James Wilson (revolutionary)
    James Wilson was born on September 3, 1760, in the parish of Avondale in Scotland. He was a weaver from the town of Strathaven in Lanarkshire, but as the Industrial Revolution affected the weaving trade he had to find alternative work....
    
    , a leader of the "Radical War" of 1820
• James Q. Wilson
  James Q. Wilson
  James Q. Wilson is an American academic political scientist and an authority on public administration. He is a professor and senior fellow at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College....
  
  , American academic
• Jennifer Wilson (soprano) (1968–), American opera singer
• Colonel J. S. Wilson, early Scouting notable
• Jeff Wilson (disambiguation), several people
• John Wilson (disambiguation)
  John Wilson (disambiguation)
  -Politicians:* John Wilson , member of the Scottish Parliament * Sir John Wilson, 1st Baronet , Member of Parliament for Falkirk* John Wilson , member of Parliament for Edinburgh...
  
  , several people, including:
  • John Wilson (mathematician)
    John Wilson (mathematician)
    John Wilson was an English mathematician. The theorem, Wilson's Theorem, named after him for its discovery from Ibn al-Haytham, not its proof....
    
    , English mathematician
  • John Appleton Wilson
    John Appleton Wilson
    John Appleton Wilson was an American architect.-Personal life:Wilson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the oldest son of Rev. Franklin Wilson, a well-known Baptist minister, and Virginia Appleton Wilson...
    
    , American architect
  • John Burgess Wilson, British author known as Anthony Burgess
    Anthony Burgess
    John Burgess Wilson  – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...
    
    
  • John Leonard Wilson
    John Leonard Wilson
    John Leonard Wilson KCMG was an Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of Singapore from 1941 to 1949 during the time of Japanese occupation and subsequently Dean of Manchester and Bishop of Birmingham.-Education:...
    
    , Anglican Bishop
  • John Rowan Wilson M.D. F.R.C.S., British physician and author
  • John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist
• Joseph Wilson (disambiguation) (or Joe Wilson), several people
• Justin Wilson, several people, including:
  • Justin Wilson, English motor-racing driver
  • Justin Wilson (chef)
    Justin Wilson (chef)
    Justin E. Wilson was a southern American chef and humorist known for his brand of Cajun cuisine-inspired cooking and humor. He was a self-styled "raconteur" and a staunch political conservative....
    
     (1914–2001), American chef and humorist
  • Justin Wilson (lawyer)
    Justin Wilson (lawyer)
    Justin Potter Wilson is an American lawyer and Republican politician who is currently Tennessee state Comptroller of the Treasury. He formerly was Tennessee deputy governor, was a federal judicial nominee to the U.S...
    
     (1945–), American lawyer

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• Kelvin Wilson
  Kelvin Wilson
  Kelvin James Wilson is an English footballer who currently plays as a centre back for Scottish Premier League side Celtic....
  
  , English footballer with Nottingham Forest
  Nottingham Forest F.C.
  Nottingham Forest Football Club is an English Association Football club based in West Bridgford, Nottingham, that plays in the Football League Championship...
  
  
• Kenneth G. Wilson
  Kenneth G. Wilson
  Kenneth Geddes Wilson is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner.As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned his PhD from Caltech in 1961, studying under Murray Gell-Mann....
  
  , American physicist
• Kris Wilson (American football)
  Kris Wilson (American football)
  Kristopher "Kris" Wilson is an American football tight end for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the second round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Pittsburgh...
  
  , American football player
• Kris Wilson (baseball), American baseball player

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• Landon Wilson
  Landon Wilson
  Landon Wilson is a former American professional ice hockey right winger who last played for the Texas Stars of the AHL, where he served as team captain. He is the son of former NHL forward Rick Wilson.-Playing career:...
  
  , American ice hockey player
• Lanford Wilson
  Lanford Wilson
  Lanford Wilson was an American playwright who helped to advance the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1980, was elected in 2001 to the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2004 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters...
  
  , American playwright
• Les Wilson, New Zealand field hockey goalkeeper
• Luke Wilson
  Luke Wilson
  Luke Cunningham Wilson is an American film actor known for his roles in Old School, Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, Legally Blonde, Idiocracy and Death at a Funeral.-Early life:...
  
  , American actor, brother of Andrew and Owen Wilson

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• Mara Wilson
  Mara Wilson
  Mara Elizabeth Wilson is an American former child actress best known for her roles as a child star, particularly in Mrs. Doubtfire , Miracle on 34th Street , and Matilda . She was born in Los Angeles, California, to Michael and Suzie Wilson . She has three older brothers, Danny, Jon, and Joel, and...
  
   (born 1987), American actress
• Margaret Wilson
  • Margaret Wilson
    Margaret Wilson
    Dame Margaret Wilson DCNZM is a New Zealand academic and former politician. She was Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives during the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand. She is a member of the Labour Party.-Early life:...
    
     (born 1947), New Zealand politician
  • Margaret Bush Wilson
    Margaret Bush Wilson
    Margaret Bush Wilson was an American activist. Wilson broke many barriers as an African-American woman throughout her professional career. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she successfully managed a St...
    
     (1919–2009), former American activist
• Mary Wilson
  • Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx (born 1918), an English poet; wife of former British prime minister, Harold Wilson
  • Mary Wilson (singer)
    Mary Wilson (singer)
    Mary Wilson is an American singer, formerlymember of the Motown female singing group The Supremes during the 1960s and 1970s. Wilson was the only singer to be a consistent member of the group in its eighteen-year tenure...
    
     (born 1944), American singer
• Meri Wilson
  Meri Wilson
  Meri Wilson was an American popular music singer, specializing in double entendre novelty songs.She was born in Nagoya, Japan, at a U.S. military base, but raised in Marietta, Georgia. Wilson later gained a Masters Degree in Musical Education at Georgia State University.In the 1970s she moved to...
  
   (1949–2002), American pop music singer
• Michael Wilson (director)
  Michael Wilson (director)
  Michael Wilson , currently serving as artistic director at Hartford Stage, is an American stage director working extensively in regional theatre, Broadway, and Off-Broadway....
  
   (b. 1864), artistic director of Hartford Stage
• Mike Wilson (ice hockey) (born 1975), Canadian ice hockey player
• Murry Wilson
  Murry Wilson
  Murry Gage Wilson was an American musician and record producer, best remembered as the father of The Beach Boys members Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, and Carl Wilson, uncle of bandmate Mike Love, and the husband of Audree Wilson...
  
   (1917–1973), father of Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys

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• Nancy Wilson (jazz singer) (1937–), American jazz singer
• Nancy Wilson (rock musician) (b. 1954), Musician, singer for American rock band Heart, sister of Ann Wilson

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• Patricia Wilson
  Patricia Wilson
  Patricia Wilson was a popular writer of 53 romance novels in Mills & Boon from 1986 to 2004.-Single novels:*The Final Price *Bride of Diaz *A Growing Suspicion *A Lingering Melody *Moment of Anger *Ortiga Marriage...
  
  , Novelist
• Patrick Wilson (disambiguation)
• Paul Wilson (musician)
  Paul Wilson (musician)
  Paul "Pablo" Wilson is a Scottish musician, who is best known as the bass guitarist for Northern Irish alternative rock band Snow Patrol. He previously played guitar in Glasgow band Terra Diablo from 2000–2005. In March 2005, he replaced bassist Mark McClelland in Snow Patrol and switched...
  
  , bass guitarist for Snow Patrol
• Peta Wilson
  Peta Wilson
  Peta Gia Wilson is an Australian actress and model. She is best known as Nikita in the television series La Femme Nikita.-Early life:...
  
  , Australian actress
• Pete Wilson
  Pete Wilson
  Peter Barton "Pete" Wilson is an American politician from California. Wilson, a Republican, served as the 36th Governor of California , the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator , eleven years as Mayor of San Diego and...
  
  , American politician
• Pete Wilson (broadcaster)
  Pete Wilson (broadcaster)
  Peter James "Pete" Wilson was an American broadcaster born in Wisconsin. For more than 20 years prior to his death, he worked in the San Francisco Bay Area...
  
  , San Francisco Bay Area TV and radio personality
• Pete Wilson (wrestler)
  Pete Wilson (wrestler)
  Pete Wilson is a Canadian professional wrestler. Wilson is currently wrestling for the Calgary based Stampede Wrestling promotion.-Professional wrestling career:...
  
  , professional wrestler
• Peter Wilson (disambiguation), one of several people, including:
  • Peter Wilson (Australian rules footballer) (1963-), Australian rules footballer
  • Peter Wilson (English footballer)
  • Peter Wilson (Sotheby's) (1913–1984), Chairman of Sotheby's, 1957–1980
  • Peter Lamborn Wilson
    Peter Lamborn Wilson
    Peter Lamborn Wilson , is an American political writer, essayist, and poet, known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone , based, in part, on a historical review of pirate utopias...
    
    , political writer, essayist, and poet

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• Rainn Wilson
  Rainn Wilson
  Rainn Dietrich Wilson is an American actor and comedian. He is primarily known for his role as the egomaniacal Dwight Schrute on the American version of the television comedy The Office...
  
  , American actor
• Ray Wilson (footballer) MBE (1934-), English footballer
  • Rex Wilson
    Rex Wilson
    Rex Albert Wilson is a retired male long-distance runner from New Zealand, who represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he finished in 16th place in the men's marathon, clocking 2:15:51. He set his personal best in the classic distance in...
    
    , New Zealand long-distance runner
• Richard Wilson (disambiguation)
  Richard Wilson (disambiguation)
  - Academia :* Richard Wilson , British Shakespeare scholar* Richard Wilson , British physicist* Richard Guy Wilson , architectural historian and University of Virginia faculty member...
  
  , several people
• Rita Wilson
  Rita Wilson
  -Early life:Wilson was born Margarita Ibrahimoff in Los Angeles, California.Her father, a Bulgarian who worked at a racetrack, was born in Greece. Before immigrating to the US, he had lived in Bulgaria and Turkey....
  
  , American actress
• Robert Wilson (disambiguation), several people
• Robin Wilson (mathematician)
  Robin Wilson (mathematician)
  Robin James Wilson is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Open University, a Stipendiary Lecturer at Pembroke College, Oxford and, , Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, where he has also been a visiting professor...
  
  , British mathematician and son of Harold Wilson
  Harold Wilson
  James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Member of Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the...
  
  
• Roger Wilson
  Sophie Wilson
  Sophie Wilson is a British computer scientist. She is known for designing the Acorn Micro-Computer, the first of a long line of computers sold by Acorn Computers Ltd, as well as the instruction set of the highly successful ARM processor.- Life and career :...
  
   (Sophie Wilson), English computer scientist
• Ron Wilson (ice hockey b. 1955), NHL coach
• Ronald Wilson
  Ronald Wilson
  Sir Ronald Darling Wilson, AC, KBE, CMG, QC was a distinguished Australian lawyer, judge and social activist serving on the High Court of Australia between 1979 and 1989 and as the President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission between 1990 and 1997.Wilson is probably best known as...
  
  , Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Ruth Wilson (actress)
  Ruth Wilson (actress)
  Ruth Wilson is an English actress, perhaps best known for her performance in the title role of Jane Eyre.-Early life and education:...
  
  , English actress
• Ryan Wilson
  Ryan Wilson
  Ryan Wilson is an American professional wrestler who formerly worked for World Wrestling Entertainment in the Ohio Valley Wrestling developmental promotion as Jacob Duncan where he was a former OVW Heavyweight Champion...
  
  , American professional wrestler

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• Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson is an English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical The Boy Friend .-Biography:Wilson was born Alexander Galbraith Wilson in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford. During the war he served in the Royal Ordnance Corps in Great...
  
  , English composer
• Sarah Wilson
  Sarah Wilson
  Sarah Wilson was an English impostor who took a role of nonexistent sister of Queen Charlotte. How much of the tale is true is unclear.Sarah Wilson was born in Staffordshire and at the age of 16 moved to London...
  
  , English impostor
• Sean Wilson (actor), English actor
• Sean Wilson (speedway rider)
  Sean Wilson (speedway rider)
  Sean Wilson is a former international speedway rider who has ridden for Great Britain at test level.-Career summary:...
  
  
• Serena Wilson
  Serena Wilson
  Serena Wilson , often known just as "Serena", was a well-known dancer, choreographer, and teacher who helped popularize belly dance in the United States. Serena's work also helped legitimize the dance form and helped it to be perceived as more than burlesque or stripping...
  
  , belly dancer
• Shadow Wilson
  Shadow Wilson
  Rossiere "Shadow" Wilson was an American jazz drummer.Much of Wilson's early work was with swing jazz orchestras. He played with Lucky Millinder in 1939, and following this with Benny Carter, Tiny Bradshaw, Lionel Hampton, Earl Hines, Count Basie, and Woody Herman...
  
  , American jazz drummer
• Sid Wilson
  Sid Wilson
  Sidney George Wilson also known as Ratboy or DJ Sid, #0 , is an American disc jockey known as the turntablist of the Grammy Award winning band Slipknot. He is the youngest member of the band.-Biography:...
  
  , turntablist of Slipknot
• Stacy Wilson
  Stacy Wilson
  Stacy Wilson is a former captain of the Canadian national women's hockey team, former assistant coach, author and the former head coach of the Bowdoin College women's ice hockey team....
  
  , Canadian women's ice hockey player
• Sophie Wilson
  Sophie Wilson
  Sophie Wilson is a British computer scientist. She is known for designing the Acorn Micro-Computer, the first of a long line of computers sold by Acorn Computers Ltd, as well as the instruction set of the highly successful ARM processor.- Life and career :...
  
  , English computer scientist
• Steven Wilson
  Steven Wilson
  Steven John Wilson is an English musician, best known as the founder, lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of progressive rock band Porcupine Tree...
  
  , English musician (Porcupine Tree)
• Steve "Boomstick" Wilson
  Steve "Boomstick" Wilson
  Steve "Boomstick" Wilson is the former drummer for Against All Will, Dead Kennedys and t.A.T.u..-References:...
  
  , current drummer of T.A.T.u. and former drummer of Dead Kennedys and Against All Will

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• Teddy Wilson
  Teddy Wilson
  Theodore Shaw "Teddy" Wilson was an American jazz pianist whose sophisticated and elegant style was featured on the records of many of the biggest names in jazz, including Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.-Biography:Wilson was born in Austin, Texas in...
  
  , American jazz pianist
• Thomas Wilson (disambiguation), one of several people, including:
  • Thomas Wilson (Virginia politician)
    Thomas Wilson (Virginia politician)
    Thomas Wilson was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, father of Edgar Campbell Wilson and grandfather of Eugene McLanahan Wilson....
    
     (1765–1826), U.S. Representative from Virginia
  • Thomas Wilson (MP) (1770–1827), sometime MP for Stafford
  • Thomas Wilson (Pennsylvania)
    Thomas Wilson (Pennsylvania)
    Thomas Wilson was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Thomas Wilson was born near Sunbury, Pennsylvania. He had the contract for supplying the western forts of the United States from Niagara to New Orleans. He was engaged in shipbuilding in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1805...
    
     (1772–1824), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
  • Thomas Wilson (Minnesota)
    Thomas Wilson (Minnesota)
    Thomas Wilson was an American lawyer, Minnesota congressman and state legislator, associate justice and the 2nd chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court....
    
     (1827–1910), U.S. Representative from Minnesota
  • Thomas Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson
    Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
    
     (1856–1924), 28th President of the United States (used the name Thomas Wilson until he was a student at Princeton)
  • T. Webber Wilson
    T. Webber Wilson
    Thomas Webber Wilson was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.Born in Coldwater, Mississippi, Wilson attended the public schools of his native city....
    
     (Thomas Webber Wilson, 1893–1948), U.S. Representative from Mississippi
  • Thomas F. Wilson
    Thomas F. Wilson
    Thomas F. Wilson is an American actor, writer, musician, painter, voice-over artist and stand-up comedian. He is best known for playing Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future trilogy and Coach Ben Fredricks on NBC's Freaks and Geeks.-Early life:Thomas Francis Wilson, Jr. was...
    
     (1959-), American actor
• Tom Wilson (actor)
  Tom Wilson (actor)
  Tom Wilson was an American film actor. He appeared in 254 films between 1915 and 1963. He was born in Helena, Montana, and died in Los Angeles, California.-Selected filmography:* Little Marie...
  
   (1880–1965), American actor
• Tom Wilson (producer) (1931–1978), 1960s music producer
• Tom Wilson (cartoonist)
  Tom Wilson (cartoonist)
  Thomas Albert Wilson , better known as Tom Wilson, was an American cartoonist. Wilson was the creator of the comic strip Ziggy, which he drew from 1971 to 1987. The strip was then continued by his son, Tom Wilson, Jr.Wilson served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955. He attended the Art Institute...
  
   (1931-), American cartoonist
• Torrie Wilson
  Torrie Wilson
  Torrie Anne Wilson is a retired American professional wrestler, fitness competitor and model. She is best known for her tenures in World Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment , where she worked on both their SmackDown and Raw brands throughout her eight-year run.As a fitness...
  
  , female professional wrestler

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• Walter Bartley Wilson
  Walter Bartley Wilson
  Walter Bartley Wilson , was an artist, and is seen as the mainstay in the foundation of Cardiff City Football Club.-Childhood:...
  
   (1870–1954), founder of Cardiff City Football Club
• Major Walter Gordon Wilson
  Walter Gordon Wilson
  Major Walter Gordon Wilson was an engineer and member of the British Royal Naval Air Service. He was credited by the 1919 Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors as the co-inventor of the tank, along with Sir William Tritton....
  
  , co-inventor of the tank
• Wendy Wilson
  Wendy Wilson
  Wendy Wilson is an American singer and member of the pop singing trio Wilson Phillips. She is the daughter of Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson and his first wife Marilyn, who was a member of girl group The Honeys; and she is the younger sister of Carnie Wilson.Wilson was born in Los Angeles,...
  
   (1969– ), American singer; daughter of Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys)
• William Wilson (disambiguation), one of several people, including:
  • Bill Wilson (convict)
    Bill Wilson (convict)
    Bill Wilson was a man wrongfully convicted in Blount County, Alabama of murdering his wife and child in 1912....
    
    , Alabama man wrongly convicted of two murders
  • Bill Wilson (Scottish politician) (1963- as William L. Wilson), Scottish nationalist politician
  • William Wilson (Pennsylvania)
    William Wilson (Pennsylvania)
    William Wilson was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives who served Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from March 1815 to March 1819....
    
    , U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1815–1819)
  • William Wilson (Ohio politician)
    William Wilson (Ohio politician)
    William Wilson was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in New Boston, New Hampshire, Wilson attended the public schools and was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1797. He studied law in Johnstown, New York, and was admitted to the bar.He moved to Ohio and settled in...
    
     (1773–1827), U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • William Wilson (engineer) (1809–1862), first locomotive engineer in Germany
  • Sir William James Erasmus Wilson
    William James Erasmus Wilson
    Sir William James Erasmus 'Orgasmus' Wilson FRCS FRS , generally known as Sir Erasmus Wilson, was an English surgeon and dermatologist.-Biography:...
    
     (1809–1884), a physician and surgeon
  • William Wilson (mayor)
    William Wilson (mayor)
    William Barbour Wilson , also known as "Cabbage" Wilson, was the first Mayor of Christchurch in New Zealand in 1868.-Early life:...
    
     (1819–1897), first mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand
  • William Wilson (Donegal MP)
    William Wilson (Donegal MP)
    William Wilson was an Irish politician. He was elected to the United Kingdom House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Donegal at a by-election in 1876, and held the seat until his death three years later at the age of 43....
    
     (1836–1879), sometime MP for Donegal
  • William Lyne Wilson
    William Lyne Wilson
    William Lyne Wilson was a Bourbon Democrat politician and lawyer from West Virginia.-Biography:Born in Charles Town, Virginia , Wilson attended Charles Town Academy, graduated from Columbian College in 1860 and subsequently studied at the University of Virginia...
    
     (1843–1900), U.S. Postmaster General
  • William Wilson (aquatics)
    William Wilson (aquatics)
    William Wilson was a late 19th-century British journalist, swimming instructor and coach, and contributor to the scientific techniques behind competitive swimming...
    
     (1844-?), writer on swimming, and the inventor of water polo
  • William Bauchop Wilson
    William Bauchop Wilson
    William Bauchop Wilson was a American labor leader and politician. He is best remembered for his service as the first Secretary of Labor between 1913 and 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson.-Early life:...
    
     (1862–1934), first U.S. Secretary of Labor
  • William Warfield Wilson (1868–1942), U.S. Representative from Illinois
  • William E. Wilson
    William E. Wilson
    William Edward Wilson was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.Born in Mount Vernon, Indiana, Wilson attended the public schools and the Evansville Commercial College, with which he was associated as teacher, principal, and owner from 1888 to 1904.He retired from school work and engaged in the...
    
     (1870–1948), U.S. Representative from Indiana
  • William H. Wilson
    William H. Wilson
    William Henry Wilson was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.-Career:...
    
     (1877–1937), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
  • William Wilber Wilfred Wilson
    William Wilber Wilfred Wilson
    William Wilber Wilfred Wilson was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1915 to 1922, and again from 1941 to 1949....
    
     (1885–1964), Canadian politician
  • William Griffith "Bill W.
    Bill W.
    William Griffith Wilson , also known as Bill Wilson or Bill W., was the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous , an international mutual aid fellowship with over two million members belonging to 100,800 groups of alcoholics helping other alcoholics achieve and maintain sobriety...
    
    " Wilson (1895–1971), co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
  • William Wilson (Labour politician) (1913- ), a British Labour MP before 1983
  • William A. Wilson
    William A. Wilson
    William Albert Wilson was an American diplomat and businessman from Los Angeles.-Early years:His father was an engineer in the oil-tool business and his mother a Canadian...
    
     (1914- ), American diplomat
  • William Julius Wilson
    William Julius Wilson
    William Julius Wilson is an American sociologist. He worked at the University of Chicago 1972-1996 before moving to Harvard....
    
     (1935- ), American sociologist
  • Willie Wilson (minister)
    Willie Wilson (minister)
    Reverend Willie F. Wilson was born in Newport News, Virginia. He graduated from Ohio University and received a Masters degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C....
    
    , Baptist minister and candidate for mayor of Washington, D.C
  • Willie Wilson (baseball) (1955- ), American baseball player
  • Mookie Wilson
    Mookie Wilson
    William Hayward "Mookie" Wilson is an American former Major League Baseball center fielder and current coach for the New York Mets. He played 12 years in baseball for the New York Mets and Toronto Blue Jays . He was a switch hitter primarily known for his impressive speed and positive attitude...
    
     (William Hayward Wilson, 1956- ), American baseball player
• Woodrow Wilson
  Woodrow Wilson
  Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
  
  , President of the United States

Fictional characters

• Sergeant Arthur Wilson
  Sergeant Arthur Wilson
  Sergeant The Honourable Arthur Wilson is a fictional Home Guard platoon sergeant and bank clerk portrayed by John Le Mesurier on the BBC television situation comedy Dad's Army....
  
  , character played by John Le Mesurier
  John Le Mesurier
  John Le Mesurier was a BAFTA Award-winning English actor. He is most famous for his role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the popular 1970s BBC comedy Dad's Army.-Career:...
  
  , in the television situation comedy Dad's Army
  Dad's Army
  Dad's Army is a British sitcom about the Home Guard during the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft and broadcast on BBC television between 1968 and 1977. The series ran for 9 series and 80 episodes in total, plus a radio series, a feature film and a stage show...
  
  
• David "Pudd'nhead" Wilson, the title character of Pudd'nhead Wilson
  Pudd'nhead Wilson
  Pudd'nhead Wilson is a novel by Mark Twain. It was serialized in The Century Magazine , before being published as a novel in 1894.-Plot:...
  
  , an 1894 novel by Mark Twain
• Dr. James Wilson (House)
  James Wilson (House)
  James Evan Wilson, M.D., is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. He is played by Robert Sean Leonard. The character first appears in the show's pilot episode when he introduces a medical case to Dr. Gregory House, the protagonist of the show. Wilson is Dr. House's only true friend,...
  
  , character portrayed by Robert Sean Leonard, in the television drama House, M.D.
• William Wilson (short story)
  William Wilson (short story)
  "William Wilson" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years outside of London. The tale follows the theme of the doppelgänger and is written in a style based on rationality...
  
  , title character in a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Wilson (Home Improvement) (Wilson W. Wilson Jr.), played by Earl Hindman, in the television situation comedy Home Improvement