What is "wilson"

Wilson may refer to:

Wilson is a 1944 American biographical film in Technicolor about American President Woodrow Wilson. It stars Charles Coburn, Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.

Wilson is a subway station on the Yonge–University line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the median of Allen Road at Wilson Avenue.

Wilson is a lunar crater that lies in the southern part of the Moon's near side, to the southwest of the large walled plain Clavius. It is nearly attached to the southeastern rim of the slightly larger crater Kircher. Almost due east lies Klaproth, another walled plain.

This crater has a heavily eroded outer rim that now forms an irregular rise about the relatively level interior floor. The flooded remains of a crater intrudes part way into the rim and inner wall along the south-southeastern section. Several other small craters lie along the eastern and northern rim. The narrow section of surface between Wilson and Kircher is irregular and contains a small, cup-shaped crater that joins both outer rims. The interior floor is marked by a number of tiny craterlets of various dimensions, and there is a small crater along the edge of the eastern inner wall.

Wilson is an English surname, common in the English-speaking world. The name is derived from a patronymic form of Will, a popular medieval name. The medieval Will is derived from any of several names containing the first Germanic element wil, meaning "desire". Possibly the most common of these names was William, derived from elements wil and helm, meaning "desire" and "helmet", "protection". The surname Wilson is first recorded in England as Willeson in 1324， and in Scotland as Wulson in 1405.

It is the seventh most common surname in England, and tenth most common in the United States. Wilson is also now quite common as a surname in many other countries with a large English-speaking population such as Canada, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand.

Wilson is also a given name.

Wilson ASA is a shortsea liner shipping company that operates about 100 vessels, of which 64 are owned. The ships are bulk carriers in the range of to . The company is controlled by Kristian Eidesvik who owns about 80% of the company. Headquarters are located in Bergen, Norway.

Wilson (dates unknown) was an English professional cricketer who made 2 known appearances in first-class cricket matches from 1797 to 1809.

"Wilson" is the tenth episode of the sixth season of House. It aired on November 30, 2009. The episode, uniquely centered on Wilson and a day in his life, was notable for departing from the usual House-centric storyline.

Wilson is a 2013 biography of the 28th President of the United States Woodrow Wilson by Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg. The book is a New York Times Best Seller.

Wilson is an upcoming 2017 American comedy-drama film directed by Craig Johnson and written by Daniel Clowes, based on the graphic novel of the same name by Clowes. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Laura Dern, Isabella Amara, Judy Greer, and Cheryl Hines. Filming began on June 25, 2015, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The film is scheduled to be released on March 3, 2017, by Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Wilson is a rock band from Detroit, Michigan. They are usually described as "party rockers". They have released two albums: Full Blast Fuckery (2013) and Right to Rise (2015). In 2012, they launched a No-Shave November-action, raising awareness for breast cancer by calling upon fans to sport a beard and posting pictures on their Facebook page, for which the band would in turn donate 50 cents to the "Keep a Breast" foundation.

Current band members are Jason Spencer, Chad Nicefield, Kyle Landry, Matt Puhy, and James Lascu.

Wilson is a satirical graphic novel by American cartoonist Daniel Clowes, published in 2010 by Drawn and Quarterly. Starring the misanthropic Wilson, the book is structured as 70 one-page gag strips, with days or even years passing between the strips. Wilson is condescending and supercilious, and insists on communicating his alienating dissatisfactions with all those he meets, even with strangers, and most often unsolicited. The middle-aged, divorced Wilson, who lives in Oakland, California, finds himself lonely, smug, and obsessed with his past.

The style of artwork changes from strip, sometimes in Clowes' familiar tight drawing style, sometimes more exaggeratedly cartoony. The story is told in one-page segments that can be read individually, while creating a larger whole. It was printed with extremely thick and heavy cover boards. Wilson was the first book Clowes had published without first serializing it the way Ghost World and David Boring had first appeared in his comic book Eightball.

Wilson was partly inspired by a combination of reading a biography of Charles Schulz while his father was in the hospital with a terminal condition. Clowes says his father and Schulz were alike in many ways, in physical and personality terms. Clowes brought his sketchbook with him to the hospital, and there came up with the concept of Wilson and sketches of some of the strips that would end up in the final book.

The book has been optioned by director Alexander Payne. The deal would have Clowes writing the screenplay. However, Payne has confirmed in a Parade interview dated February 24, 2014 that he was no longer involved with the film project.

The project was taken over by Fox Searchlight, and Wilson filmed in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota in the summer of 2015. Craig Johnson was announced as the director. Payne remains on board as a producer.