Wilberforce Explained

Wilberforce may refer to:

People

• Wilberforce (name), for people (and fictional characters) with the name
  • William Wilberforce (1759–1833), British politician, evangelical reformer and campaigner against the slave trade

Places

Australia

• Wilberforce, New South Wales
  • Wilberforce Cemetery
  • Wilberforce Park

Canada

• Wilberforce, Ontario
• Wilberforce Colony, Ontario; an 18th-century colony of American Black citizens
• Kattimannap Qurlua (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, the birthplace of William Wilberforce, in Hull, England
• Wilberforce Way, a walking route between Hull and York, England
• Wilberfoss, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
• Wilberforce Oak, a tree stump near Holwood House, Keston, England

Other

• Wilberforce, Ohio, United States
• Wilberforce, Sierra Leone
• Wilberforce River, in the Southern Alps of New Zealand

Education

• Wilberforce College, in Hull, England
• Wilberforce Institute, research institute at the University of Hull, England
• Wilberforce School, in Princeton Junction, New Jersey
• Wilberforce University, in Wilberforce, Ohio
• Central State University, a public, historically black university in Wilberforce, Ohio (formerly Wilberforce State University)

Other uses

• Wilberforce (cat), who lived at 10 Downing Street between 1973 and 1987
• Wilberforce pendulum

See also

• Wilbur Force, a character in The Little Shop of Horrors
• Paterson Wilberforce, a U.S. soccer team which played in the National Association Football League in the early 20th century
• Wilberforce Award, given by Ratanak International to people who fight human trafficking
• The Wilberforce Society, an independent, non-partisan, student think tank at Cambridge University
• William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, a federal statute by the U.S. Congress