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Wilson Dam Village Number Three (historical)

Wilson Dam Village Number Three (historical) is a GNIS-recorded former populated place (ID 142263) in Lauderdale County, Alabama, near Wilson Dam, one of the numbered workers' villages built during the dam's 1918-25 federal construction.

Wilson disease protein

Wilson disease protein (ATP7B) is a copper-transporting P-type ATPase on chromosome 13q that loads ceruloplasmin and exports copper into bile; its mutation causes Wilson disease, now targeted by AAV gene therapy trials.

Oct 15, 2026

Wilson equation

The Wilson equation is a semi-empirical model for the excess Gibbs energy of liquid mixtures, relating activity coefficients to local composition through two adjustable parameters per binary pair.

Wilson Fisk (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Wilson Fisk, also known as the Kingpin, is a fictional New York crime lord in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, portrayed by Vincent D'Onofrio since 2015 in Daredevil.

Wilson Greatbatch

Wilson Greatbatch (1919–2011) was an American engineer and inventor credited with the first practical self-contained implantable cardiac pacemaker and the long-life lithium-iodine battery powering later devices.

Oct 22, 2026

Wilson Harris

Wilson Harris, born Theodore Wilson Harris (1921–2018), was a Guyanese novelist, poet, and critic, a former land surveyor whose experimental fiction, including the Guyana Quartet, departed from realism.

Wilson Ho

Wilson Ho (何文遠), born 1953 in Taiwan, is an American physicist at UC Irvine whose scanning tunneling microscope work achieved single-molecule imaging, spectroscopy, and chemical bond formation.

Wilson Jermaine Heredia

Wilson Jermaine Heredia (born 1971, Brooklyn) is an American actor who originated Angel Dumott Schunard in Rent on Off-Broadway, Broadway, West End, and film, winning the 1996 Tony and Drama Desk Awards and a 1999 Olivier Award.

Wilson Kipketer

Wilson Kosgei Kipketer, Danish-Kenyan 800 m runner born 1972 in Kapsabet, Kenya; triple world champion 1995-1999, Olympic silver 2000 and bronze 2004; outdoor record 1:41.11 (1997), indoor 1:42.67 until 2026.

Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich

Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich, Kenyan marathon runner born 1982; set the marathon world record 2:03:23 at Berlin 2013 and won 2012 Olympic marathon bronze; later banned four years for whereabouts failures and tampering.

Oct 15, 2026

Wilson loop

The Wilson loop is a gauge-invariant operator in gauge field theory, introduced by Kenneth Wilson in 1974; its area law is the central diagnostic of quark confinement.

Wilson M. Compton

Wilson M. Compton is an American physician and psychiatric epidemiologist who became Deputy Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in November 2013, studying substance use disorders.

Oct 22, 2026

Wilson Martins

Wilson Martins (1921–2010) was a Brazilian literary critic, historian of ideas, and newspaper columnist, best known for the seven-volume História da inteligência brasileira and a weekly column that ran in Brazilian newspapers for decades.

Wilson Oruma

Wilson Oruma, born 1976 in Warri, Nigeria, is a retired attacking midfielder who won 1996 Olympic football gold, took the 89th-minute free kick before Amunike's winning goal, and played for Lens, Sochaux, and Marseille.

Wilson Phillips

Wilson Phillips is an American vocal trio of Carnie Wilson, Wendy Wilson, and Chynna Phillips, daughters of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson and the Mamas & the Papas' John and Michelle Phillips.

Wilson Pickett

Wilson Pickett (1941–2006), "The Wicked Pickett," American soul and R&B singer from Prattville, Alabama; Atlantic Records star of "In the Midnight Hour," "Mustang Sally," "Land of 1,000 Dances"; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1991.

Wilson Poon

Wilson Poon, also known as Wilson C. K. Poon, is a soft matter physicist at the University of Edinburgh, known for work on colloids, glasses, and active matter.

Wilson S. Geisler

Wilson S. Geisler, known as Bill Geisler, is a vision scientist at the University of Texas at Austin known for ideal observer theory and natural scene statistics.

Oct 10, 2026

Wilson Sibbett

Wilson Sibbett (1948–2024) was a laser physicist at the University of St Andrews whose group discovered Kerr-lens mode locking in 1989, enabling practical femtosecond lasers.

Sep 19, 2026

Wilson Simoninha

Wilson Simoninha is a Brazilian MPB and soul singer, composer, and producer, son of singer Wilson Simonal, who debuted as a solo artist in 2000.

Sep 19, 2026

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is a technology and life sciences law firm founded in Palo Alto, California, in 1961, known for taking startup stock in lieu of fees.

Wilson Sporting Goods

Wilson Sporting Goods Co., founded 1914 in Chicago, is an American sports equipment maker (tennis, basketball, baseball, football, golf) owned by Amer Sports since 1989; official ball of NBA, WNBA, NFL, US Open.

Wilson State Park (Kansas)

Wilson State Park, Kansas state park in Russell County on 9,000-acre Wilson Reservoir, established 1966; Hell Creek and Otoe camp areas, 24.5-mile Switchgrass bike trail, 8 cabins, striped bass fishing.

Wilson Stone (American geneticist)

Wilson Stone was an American geneticist at the University of Texas at Austin known for studies of fruit fly speciation and radiation genetics, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1960.