Wilbur (name)

Wilbur is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

• Cornelia B. Wilbur (1908–1992), American psychiatrist
• Crane Wilbur (1886–1973), American writer, actor and director of stage, radio and screen
• Curtis D. Wilbur (1867–1954), US Secretary of the Navy and Chief Justice of California
• George P. Wilbur (born 1941), actor and stuntman
• Jay Wilbur (1898–1970), British bandleader
• John Wilbur (disambiguation)
• Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875–1949), American doctor, president of Stanford University and United States Secretary of the Interior
• Richard Wilbur (1921–2017), United States Poet Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Sylvia Wilbur (born 1938), British computer scientist
• Todd Wilbur, American cookbook author
• William Wilbur, New York politician
• William H. Wilbur (1888–1979), US Army brigadier general

Given name

• Wilbur Cave, American politician from South Carolina
• Wilbur Clark (1908–1965), American businessman and owner of hotels and casinos
• Wilbur J. Cohen (1913–1987), American social scientist and, as a civil servant, one of the key architects of the welfare state
• Wilbur Cooper (1892–1973), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Wilbur Lucius Cross (1862–1948), American educator and Governor of Connecticut
• Wilbur Good (1885–1963), Major League Baseball player
• Wilbur Jackson (born 1951), American collegiate and National Football League running back
• Wilbur MacDonald (born 1933), Canadian politician
• Wilbur Mills (1909–1992), influential member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas
• Wilbur Ross (born 1937), American investor and 39th Secretary of Commerce
• Wilbur Schramm (1907–1987), American journalist and academic sometimes called the "father of communication studies"
• Wilbur Shaw (1902–1954), American racing driver
• Wilbur Smith (born 1933), South African novelist
• Wilbur Sweatman (1882–1961), African-American ragtime and dixieland jazz composer, bandleader and clarinetist
• Wilbur Ware (1923–1979), American jazz double-bassist
• Wilbur Wood (born 1941), former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Wilbur Wright (1867–1912), 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