List of people with given name Wilson

For information about the name 'Wilson' itself, see Wilson (name).

Wilson is a male first name. Notable people with the name include:

People

• Wilson Ruffin Abbott (1801–1876), Canadian businessman
• Wilson Asinobi Ake (born 1955), Nigerian politician
• Wilson Alcorro (born 1973), Colombian boxer
• Wilson Álvarez (born 1970), Venezuelan baseball player
• Wilson Alvarez (American football) (born 1957), Bolivian football player
• Wilson Francisco Alves (1927–1998), Brazilian football player
• Wilson Antônio (born 1982), Brazilian football player
• Wilson Baker (1900–2002), British organic chemist
• Wilson K. Barnes (1907–1997), justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals
• Wilson Barrett (1846–1904), British actor and theater manager
• Wilson Bell (1897–1947), American politician
• Wilson Benge (1875–1955), British actor
• Wilson Bentley (1865–1931), American photographer and meteorologist
• Wilson Betemit (born 1981), Dominican baseball player
• Wilson Bigaud (1931–2010), Haitian painter
• Wilson S. Bissell (1847–1903), American politician
• Wilson Brown (admiral) (1882–1957), American admiral
• Wilson Brown (Medal of Honor) (1841–1900), American sailor
• Wilson Busienei (born 1981), Ugandan long-distance runner
• Wilson Buzzone (1938–2023), Brazilian football forward
• Wilson Caldwell (1841–1898), American university officer
• Wilson Carlile (1847–1942), British evangelist
• Wilson Casey (born 1954), American writer
• Wilson Chandler (born 1987), American basketball player
• Wilson Cooke (1819 –1887), American politician and merchant
• Wilson A. Crockett, Canadian politician
• Wilson Cruz (born 1973), American actor
• Wilson Delgado (born 1972), Dominican baseball player
• Wilson C. Edsell (1814–1900), American politician
• Wilson Frost (1925–2018), American lawyer and politician
• Wilson Goode (born 1938), Mayor of Philadelphia
• Wilson Gunaratne (born 1949), Sri Lankan Sinhala cinema, TV, and stage actor
• Wilson Harris (1921–2018), Guyanese writer
• Wilson A. Head (1914–1993), American sociologist
• Wilson Heredia (born 1972), Dominican baseball player
• Wilson Jermaine Heredia (born 1971), American actor
• Wilson Jameson (1885–1962), British doctor
• Wilson Roosevelt Jerman (1929-2020), American butler; served in the White House
• Wilson Jones (billiards player) (1922–2003), Indian billiards player
• Wilson Jones (footballer) (1914–1986), British football player
• Wilson Karunaratne (1942–2022), Sri Lankan Sinhala film actor and stunt director
• Wilson Bryan Key (1925–2008), American author
• Wilson Kipketer (born 1972), Danish middle-distance runner
• Wilson Kirwa (1974), a Finnish middle-distance runner, municipal politician, writer, and entrepreneur.
• Wilson Boit Kipketer (born 1973), Kenyan athlete
• Wilson Ko (born 1960), American cardiothoracic surgeon
• Wilson MacDonald (1880–1967), Canadian poet
• Wilson Mbomio (born 2002), British actor
• Wilson Carey McWilliams (1933–2005), American political scientist
• Wilson Cary Nicholas (1761–1820), American politician
• Wilson Odobert (born 2004), French footballer
• Wilson Palacios (born 1984), Honduran footballer
• Koddul Arachchige Wilson Perera (1926-2006), Sri Lankan Sinhala director
• Wilson Raj Perumal (born 1965), Singaporean match-fixer and bookmaker
• Wilson Pickett (1941–2006), American singer and songwriter
• Wilson Riles (1917–1999), American educator
• Wilson Tucker (writer) (1914–2006), American writer
• Wilson Valdez (born 1978), Dominican baseball player
• Wilson Whineray (1935–2012), New Zealand rugby player
• Wilson Yip (born 1963), Hong Kong actor

Fictional characters

• Wilson, a character from Phish lore
• Wilson Fisk, a crime lord known as the Kingpin
• Wilson the Volleyball, from the film Cast Away
• Wilson Wilson Jr, home improvement
• Wilson P. Higgsbury, a playable character from Don't Starve.

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Wilson
• List of people with surname Wilson
• Wilson (name)
• Wilson (disambiguation)