Wilbur (name)

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

Surname:

• Crane Wilbur (1886-1973), American writer, actor and director of stage, radio and screen
• Cornelia B. Wilbur (1908–1992), American psychiatrist
• Curtis D. Wilbur (1867-1954), US Secretary of the Navy and Chief Justice of California
• George P. Wilbur, actor and stuntman
• Jay Wilbur (1898-1970), British bandleader
• John Wilbur (disambiguation)
• Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875-1945), American doctor, president of Stanford University and United States Secretary of the Interior
• Richard Wilbur (born 1921), United States Poet Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
• Todd Wilbur, American cookbook author
• William Wilbur, New York politician
• William H. Wilbur (1888–1979), US Army brigadier general

Given name:

• 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 known for restructuring failed companies
• Wilbur Schramm (1907-1987), American journalist and academic sometimes called the "father of communication studies"
• Wilbur Shaw (1902–1954), American racing driver
• 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 the Wildcat, the athletic mascot of the University of Arizona
• Wilbur Grey, a character portrayed by Lou Costello in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
• Wilbur Robinson, a character from Disney's Meet the Robinsons