People
- Ernest Wilberforce (1840–1907), Anglican clergyman and bishop and the son of Samuel Wilberforce
- Henry William Wilberforce (1807–1873), the youngest son of William Wilberforce, Catholic convert, journalist and author
- Herbert Wilberforce (1864–1941), British male tennis player and chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club
- Lionel Robert Wilberforce (1861–1944), British physicist, great-grandson of William Wilberforce and inventor of the Wilberforce pendulum
- Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce (1907–2003), great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce, famous Law Lord
- Robert Isaac Wilberforce (1802–1857), second oldest son of William Wilberforce, a clergyman, Catholic convert and writer
- Samuel Wilberforce (1805–1873), third oldest son of William Wilberforce, a bishop who debated the theory of evolution with Thomas Henry Huxley
- William Wilberforce (1759–1833), British politician, evangelical reformer and campaigner against the slave trade
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
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