Wilson

Template:Wiktionary Wilson may refer to:

People

• Wilson (name)
  • List of people with given name Wilson
  • List of people with surname Wilson
• Wilson (footballer, 1927–1998), Brazilian manager and defender
• Wilson (footballer, born 1984), full name Wilson Rodrigues de Moura Júnior, Brazilian goalkeeper
• Wilson (footballer, born 1985), full name Wilson Rodrigues Fonseca, Brazilian forward
• Wilson (footballer, born 1975), full name Wilson Roberto dos Santos, Brazilian centre-back

Places

Australia

• Wilson, South Australia
• Wilson, Western Australia
• Wilson Inlet, Western Australia
• Wilson Reef, Queensland
• Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, Australia, and hence:

• Wilsons Promontory Islands Important Bird Area
• Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse
• Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park
• Wilsons Promontory National Park

Canada

• Wilson Avenue (Toronto), Ontario
  • Wilson (TTC) subway station
  • Wilson Subway Yard

Poland

• Wilson Square (Plac Wilsona), in Warsaw

United Kingdom

• Wilson, Leicestershire
• The Wilson (Cheltenham), Gloucestershire

United States

• Wilson, Arkansas
• Wilson, Pope County, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
• The Wilson (Indianapolis, Indiana), listed on the NRHP in Indiana
• Wilson, Kansas
• Wilson, Louisiana
• Wilson (town), New York
  • Wilson (village), New York, in the town
• Wilson, North Carolina
• Wilson, Ohio
• Wilson, Oklahoma
• Wilson, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
• Wilson, Pennsylvania
• Wilson, South Carolina
• Wilson, Texas
• Wilson, Comanche County, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Wilson, Kaufman County, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Wilson, Utah, a former unincorporated community
• Wilson, Wisconsin (disambiguation), several places
• Wilson, Wyoming
• Wilson Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line) subway station in New York City
• Mouth of Wilson, Virginia
• Mount Wilson, California

Lists of places with Wilson in the name

• Lake Wilson (disambiguation)
• List of peaks named Mount Wilson
• Wilson County (disambiguation)
• Wilson Township (disambiguation)

Science

Botany and zoology

• Wilson's bird-of-paradise
• Wilson's magnolia (Magnolia wilsonii)
• Wilson's phalarope
• Wilson's plover
• Wilson's snipe
• Wilson's spiny mouse
• Wilson's storm petrel
• Wilson's warbler

Medicine

• Wilson's disease, a hereditary disease characterized by the accumulation of copper in tissue
• Wilson's temperature syndrome, a contested form of thyroid deficiency in alternative medicine circles

Physics

• Wilson action, lattice discretization of gauge fields
• Wilson loop, loop operator in quantum field theory

Geology

• Wilson Cycle, Geophysical model of the opening and closing of rifts

Companies

• Wilson (company), Norwegian shipping company
• Wilson Combat, American firearms company
• Wilson's (Mint Cake), one of three companies that manufacture Kendal mint cake
• Wilson Parking, Hong Kong–based car parking management company
• Wilson Security, Australian private security company
• Wilson Sporting Goods, American sports equipment manufacturer
• H. J. Wilson Co., aka Wilson's, a defunct catalog showroom chain
• O. G. Wilson, a defunct catalog showroom chain owned by Zale Corporation
• Wilson's (department store), a department store in Massachusetts
• Wilson's Leather

Fictional characters

• David "Pudd'nhead" Wilson, from the novel Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
• Sergeant Arthur Wilson, from the TV show Dad's Army
• Wilson (Home Improvement), from the TV show Home Improvement
• James Wilson (House), from the TV show House
• George Everett Wilson, from the comic strip Dennis the Menace
• Wilson the Wonder Athlete, from the British story papers and comics published by D.C. Thomson & Co.
• Wilson the Volleyball, from the film Cast Away
• Wilson, king in the Gamehendge saga by the rock band Phish
• Wilson, a red diesel engine from the TV series Chuggington
• Wilson, the main character from the video game Don't Starve
• Wilson, the dog of Jim in Friday Night Dinner
• The Wilson family in The Amazing World of Gumball

Other uses

• Wilson (1944 film), a biographical film about Woodrow Wilson
• Wilson (2017 film), a film directed by Craig Johnson, based on Daniel Clowes's graphic novel
• Wilson (band), an American rock band
• Wilson (book), a 2013 biography of Woodrow Wilson by A. Scott Berg
• Wilson (comics), a 2010 graphic novel by Daniel Clowes
• Wilson (crater), a lunar crater
• "Wilson" (House episode), a television episode
• "Wilson (Expensive Mistakes)", a song by Fall Out Boy
• Wilson gearbox, or preselector gearbox
• Wilson Ornithological Society, Michigan, United States
• Wilson's Hospital School, a boarding school in County Westmeath, Ireland
• Wilson's School, boys' grammar school in Wallington, London, UK
• Wilson, the nickname of the first deployment of The Ocean Cleanup
• Wilson score

See also

• Justice Wilson (disambiguation)
• Willson (disambiguation)
• Wilson Building (disambiguation)
• Wilson College (disambiguation)
• Wilson Creek (disambiguation)
• Wilson Lake (disambiguation)
• Wilsonville (disambiguation)
• Wilson's theorem in mathematics