title: Wimshurst
text: # Wimshurst
  
  Wimshurst is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Henry Wimshurst (1804–1884), English shipbuilder
  * James Wimshurst (1832–1903), English inventor, engineer and shipwright
     * Wimshurst machine, an electrostatic generator
  * Ken Wimshurst (1938–2017), English footballer and manager
  