Wilson

Wilson may refer to:

People

• Wilson (surname)
• Woodrow Wilson
• Harold Wilson
• Robert Wilson
• Samuel Hugh Wilson

In geography

• List of peaks named Mount Wilson

Australia

• Wilson, Western Australia

Canada

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

Poland

• Wilson Square (Plac Wilsona) in Warsaw

United Kingdom

• Wilson, Devon
• Wilson, Leicestershire

United States of America

Communities

• Wilson, Arkansas
• Wilson, Indiana
• Wilson, Kansas
• Wilson, Louisiana
• Wilson (town), New York
  • Wilson, New York (village within the town)
• Wilson, North Carolina
• Wilson, Ohio
• Wilson, Oklahoma
• Wilson, Pennsylvania
• Wilson, Texas
• Wilson, Wisconsin
• Wilson, Wyoming
• Wilson Township, Michigan
• Wilson Township, Minnesota
• Wilsonville, Alabama
• Wilsonville, Oregon
• Lake Wilson, Minnesota
• Mouth of Wilson, Virginia

See also: Wilson County

Other uses

• Mount Wilson (California), a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains
• Wilson Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line) subway station in New York City

In medicine

• Wilson's disease, a hereditary disease characterized by the accumulation of copper in tissue
• Wilson's syndrome, also known as Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome or Wilson's Temperature Syndrome, a form of thyroid deficiency popular in alternative medicine circles

In botany and zoology

• Wilson's Bird of Paradise
• Wilson's Magnolia
• Wilson's Phalarope
• Wilson's Plover
• Wilson's Snipe
• Wilson's Spiny Mouse
• Wilson's Storm-petrel
• Wilson's Warbler

Companies

• Wilson ASA, Norwegian shipping company
• Wilson Sporting Goods, company that manufactures and markets sports equipment
• Wilson's, company that manufactures Kendal mint cake

Fictional characters

• Wilson (Home Improvement), fictional character from the TV show Home Improvement
• James Wilson (House), fictional character from the TV show House
• Wilson the Volleyball, volleyball from the film Cast Away
• Wilson, fictitious king in the Gamehendge saga by the rock band Phish

Other

• Wilson, a cocktail made with vodka, soda, and a slice of orange, consumed by fine gentlemen and savvy businessmen
• Wilson's School, boys' grammar school in Wallington, in the London Borough of Sutton, UK
• Wilson (film), 1944 biographical film about President Woodrow Wilson
• Wilson Ornithological Society
• Wilson reading system
• Wilson's theorem in mathematics
• Wilson is a term from William Gibson's novel Count Zero that identifies an individual as a screw-up. "To pull a Wilson,” means to screw up in a spectacularly stupid fashion.
• Wilson gearbox, or preselector gearbox