Wilberforce
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Wilberforce can refer to:
- the family name of several prominent English men:
- * William Wilberforce, who fought against the slave trade, and
- * Samuel Wilberforce, his son, a bishop who debated the theory of evolution with Thomas Henry Huxley.
- * Robert Isaac Wilberforce, his son, a clergyman, Catholic convert and writer.
- * Henry William Wilberforce, his youngest son, a Catholic convert, journalist and author
- * Richard Wilberforce, great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce (the slave trade abolitionist), famous law lord from the House of Lords.
- several places:
- * Wilberforce, New South Wales, a suburb in Sydney, Australia
- * Wilberforce, Ohio
- also:
- * Wilberforce University
- * Wilberforce, the Downing Street mouser
- * Wilberforce, a band named after the Downing Street cat
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