Wilson may refer to:

People

Wilson (name) Wilson is an English, Scottish, and Northern Irish surname, common in the English-speaking world, with several distinct origins. The name is derived from a patronymic form of ''Will'', a popular medieval name. The medieval ''Will'' is derived fro ...

** 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 Wilsons Promontory is a peninsula that forms the southernmost part of the Australian mainland, located in the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. South Point (Wilsons Promontory), South Point at is the southernmost tip of Wilsons Promon ...

, 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) Wilson may refer to: People *Wilson (name) ** List of people with given name Wilson ** List of people with surname Wilson *Wilson (footballer, born 1927), Wilson (footballer, 1927–1998), Brazilian manager and defender *Wilson (footballer, bo ...

, Ontario **

Wilson (TTC) Wilson is a List of Toronto subway stations, subway station on Line 1 Yonge–University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the median of Allen Road at Wilson Avenue. The station is accessible, has commuter parkingincluding bike parkin ...

subway station ** Wilson Subway Yard

Poland

* Wilson Square (''Plac Wilsona''), in Warsaw

United Kingdom

* Wilson, Leicestershire *

The Wilson (Cheltenham) The Wilson, formerly known as Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, was opened in 1899. It offers free admission, and has a programme of special exhibitions. It was renamed The Wilson in honour of polar explorer Edw ...

, Gloucestershire

United States

Wilson, Arkansas Wilson is a city in Mississippi County, Arkansas, Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States. The community is located in the Arkansas Delta and is surrounded by fertile cropland historically used to produce cotton. Wilson started as a company t ...

Wilson, Pope County, Arkansas Wilson is an unincorporated community in Wilson Township of southern Pope County, Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennes ...

, an unincorporated community *

The Wilson (Indianapolis, Indiana) The Wilson is a historic Renaissance Revival apartment building located at 643 Fort Wayne Avenue in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It was built in 1905 amid an apartment-building boom; more than fifty such apartment buildings were complet ...

, listed on the NRHP in Indiana *

Wilson, Kansas Wilson is a city in Ellsworth County, Kansas, Ellsworth County, Kansas, United States. The community promotes itself as the "Czech Capital of Kansas" due to the role of Czech people, Czech immigrant settlers in its early history. As of the 20 ...

Wilson, Louisiana Wilson is a village in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 348 in 2020. It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area. Geography Wilson is located in northwestern East Feliciana Parish. Louisiana ...

Wilson (town), New York Wilson is a town in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 5,993 at the 2010 census. The town was named after an early settler, Reuben Wilson, who built and dwelt in a log cabin on the shore of Lake Ontario at the site of ...

Wilson (village), New York Wilson is a village in Niagara County, New York, United States. The population was 1,264 at the 2010 census. The village is said to be named after Luther Wilson. It is part of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. Th ...

, in the town *

Wilson, North Carolina Wilson is a city in and the county seat of Wilson County, North Carolina, United States. It is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, 23rd-most populous city in North Carolina. Located about east of the capital city of Raleigh, North Car ...

Wilson, Ohio Wilson is a village in Belmont and Monroe counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 129 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Wheeling metropolitan area. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a ...

* 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) Wilson Township may refer to the following places in the United States: Arkansas * Wilson Township, Clay County, Arkansas * Wilson Township, Faulkner County, Arkansas * Wilson Township, Fulton County, Arkansas * Wilson Township, Pope County, Arka ...

Science

Botany and zoology

Wilson's bird-of-paradise Wilson's bird-of-paradise (''Diphyllodes respublica'') is a species of passerine bird of the family (biology), family Paradisaeidae. The first footage of the Wilson's bird-of-paradise ever to be filmed was recorded in 1996 by David Attenborough f ...

* 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 In lattice field theory, the Wilson action is a discrete formulation of the Yang–Mills action, forming the foundation of lattice gauge theory. Rather than using Lie algebra valued gauge fields as the fundamental parameters of the theory, gro ...

, lattice discretization of gauge fields *

Wilson loop In quantum field theory, Wilson loops are gauge invariant operators arising from the parallel transport of gauge variables around closed loops. They encode all gauge information of the theory, allowing for the construction of loop representati ...

, 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 ''Chuggington'', also known as ''Chuggington: Tales from the Rails'' in series 6, is a British animated television series aimed at pre-school children, produced by Ludorum plc and Herschend Entertainment Studios. It is broadcast on the BBC's ...

'' * Wilson, the main character from the video game '' Don't Starve'' * Wilson, the dog of Jim in ''

Friday Night Dinner ''Friday Night Dinner'' is a British sitcom created by Robert Popper that aired on Channel 4 from 25 February 2011 to 1 May 2020. Starring Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal, and Mark Heap, it follows the regular Friday ...

'' *The Wilson family in ''

The Amazing World of Gumball ''The Amazing World of Gumball'' (also known simply as ''Gumball'' or by its abbreviation ''TAWOG''; retitled ''The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball'' beginning with its The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball, seventh season) is an animated si ...

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) Wilson was a five-piece rock band from East Lansing, Michigan, United States. The band formed in 2010 when founding member Jason Spencer was attending Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a publi ...

, 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 Wilson's School is a state boys' grammar school with academy status in the London Borough of Sutton, England. It was founded as Wilson's Grammar School in Camberwell in 1615 by Edward Wilson, making it one of the country's oldest state schoo ...

, boys' grammar school in Wallington, London, UK * Wilson, the nickname of the first deployment of The Ocean Cleanup * Wilson score