Wilbur
Encyclopedia

Surname

  • Cornelia B. Wilbur
    Cornelia B. Wilbur
    Cornelia B. Wilbur was an American psychiatrist. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1930 and was one of eight women medical college graduates in 1939...

  • Curtis D. Wilbur
    Curtis D. Wilbur
    Curtis Dwight Wilbur was born in Iowa. He was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1884. Shortly after graduation, Curtis Wilbur resigned his commission, a common practice at the time, and moved to Riverside, California. He was admitted to the California bar in 1890 and served as Los...

  • George P. Wilbur
    George P. Wilbur
    -Biography:Wilbur played Michael Myers in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, the fourth and sixth films of the Halloween film series. He was the first actor to portray Michael Myers more than once during the film series...

  • Jay Wilbur
    Jay Wilbur
    James Edward Wilbur was a British bandleader and prolifically recorded musician identified with and influential in the Big Band era....

     (1898-1970), British bandleader
  • John Wilbur (disambiguation)
  • Marcia Wilbur
    Marcia Wilbur
    Marcia Wilbur is an American writer, author of The Digital Millennium Copyright Act , DMCA, Linux Essentials and Norwich ....

  • Ray Lyman Wilbur
    Ray Lyman Wilbur
    Ray Lyman Wilbur was an American medical doctor who served as the third president of Stanford University and the 31st United States Secretary of the Interior.-Early life:...

  • Richard Wilbur
    Richard Wilbur
    Richard Purdy Wilbur is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989....

    , United States Poet Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Samuel Wilbur
    Samuel Wilbore
    Samuel Wilbore was one of the founding settlers of Portsmouth in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Coming from Essex, England with his wife and three sons, he first settled in Boston in 1633...

    , early Rhode Island settler
  • Todd Wilbur
    Todd Wilbur
    Todd Wilbur is an American author of the Top Secret Recipes series of cook books. For more than 20 years, Wilbur has been obsessed with reverse-engineering famous foods. The books showcase knock-offs of America's favorite brand named foods, like McDonald's Big Mac. Wilbur has sold over 5 million...


Given name

  • Wilbur Shaw
    Wilbur Shaw
    Warren Wilbur Shaw was a noted American racing driver and president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway from 1945 until his death. Shaw was the automotive test evaluator for Popular Science magazine...

     (1902–1954), American racing driver
  • Wilbur Wright (1867–1912), one of the two brothers generally credited with inventing the first successful airplane
  • Wilbur, the pig who is the main character in the book Charlotte's Web
    Charlotte's Web
    Charlotte's Web is an award-winning children's novel by acclaimed American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte. The book was first published in 1952, with illustrations by Garth Williams.The novel tells the story...

    by E.B. White
  • Wilbur the Wildcat, the athletic mascot of the University of Arizona
    University of Arizona
    The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...


Places

In the United States:
  • Wilbur, Indiana
    Wilbur, Indiana
    Wilbur is an unincorporated town in Gregg Township, Morgan County, Indiana....

  • Wilbur, Washington
    Wilbur, Washington
    Wilbur is a town in Lincoln County, Washington, United States. The population was 884 at the 2010 census.-History:Just prior to the construction of the Central Washington Railroad line in 1889, no towns existed west of Davenport in Lincoln County. One place along the line, "Wild Goose Bill's...

    , a small farming town in the eastern part of the state

Other uses

  • The codename given to the HTML
    HTML
    HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....

     3.2 standard
  • Wilbur (comics)
    Wilbur (comics)
    Wilbur Comics was a comic book published from 1944 to 1965. The comic featured the fictional character Wilbur Wilkin, a contemporary of Archie. Wilbur Wilkin actually made his first appearance in Zip Comics #18, three months before Archie's first appearance. Wilbur also made appearances in several...

    , a long-running comic book published by Archie comics from 1944-1965
  • Wilbur Chocolate Company
    Wilbur Chocolate Company
    The Wilbur Chocolate Company is a chocolate manufacturing company located in Lititz, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1865 by Henry Oscar Wilbur and Samuel Croft...

    , a chocolate company based in Lititz, Pennsylvania
  • Wilbur (TV series)
    Wilbur (TV series)
    Wilbur was a TV show on Discovery Kids and Ready Set Learn on TLC. Produced in San Diego, California by EKA Productions, the series debuted April 16, 2007....

    , a children's TV show on Kids' CBC
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