Wilbur (name)
Wilbur is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:Surname
- Cornelia B. Wilbur, American psychiatrist
- Crane Wilbur, American writer, actor and director of stage, radio and screen
- Curtis D. Wilbur, US Secretary of the Navy and Chief Justice of California
- George P. Wilbur, actor and stuntman
- Jay Wilbur, British bandleader
- John Wilbur
- Ray Lyman Wilbur, American doctor, president of Stanford University and United States Secretary of the Interior
- Richard Wilbur, United States Poet Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Sylvia Wilbur, British computer scientist
- Todd Wilbur, American cookbook author
- William Wilbur, New York politician
- William H. Wilbur, US Army brigadier general
Given name
- Wilbur Cave, American politician from South Carolina
- Wilbur Clark, American businessman and owner of hotels and casinos
- Wilbur Cobb, American jazz drummer
- Wilbur J. Cohen, American social scientist and, as a civil servant, one of the key architects of the welfare state
- Wilbur Cooper, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Wilbur Lucius Cross, American educator and Governor of Connecticut
- Wilbur Good, Major League Baseball player
- Wilbur Jackson, American collegiate and National Football League running back
- Wilbur MacDonald, Canadian politician
- Wilbur Mills, influential member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas
- Wilbur Ross, American investor and 39th Secretary of Commerce
- Wilbur Schramm, American journalist and academic sometimes called the "father of communication studies"
- Wilbur Shaw, American racing driver
- Wilbur Smith, South African novelist
- Wilbur Sweatman, African-American ragtime and dixieland jazz composer, bandleader and clarinetist
- Wilbur Ware, American jazz double-bassist
- Wilbur Wood, former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Wilbur Wright, one of the two brothers generally credited with inventing the first successful airplane
Fictional characters
- Wilbur, the pig who is the main character in the book Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
- Wilbur Grey, a character portrayed by Lou Costello in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
- Wilbur Mercer, a prophetic character from the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- Wilbur Post, Mister Ed's owner
- Wilbur Robinson, a character from Disney's Meet the Robinsons
- Wilbur Turnblad, a character from the Broadway musical Hairspray and its 2007 film adaptation
- Wilbur Whateley, an antagonist in H.P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror
- Wilbur the Wildcat, the athletic mascot of the University of Arizona
