# List of people with given name Wilson

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 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 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 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.