Gillian

Gillian may refer to:

Places[]

Gillian Settlement, Arkansas, an unincorporated community

People[]

Gillian (variant Jillian) is an English feminine given name, frequently shortened to Gill. It originates as a feminine form of the name Julian, Julio, Julius, and Julien. It is also in use as a surname.

Notable people with the name include:

First name[]

Gillian Alexy (born 1986), Australian actress
Gillian Allnutt (born 1949), English poet
Gillian Anderson (born 1968), American actress
Gillian Apps (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
Gillian Armstrong (born 1950), Australian film director
Gillian Attard (born 1983), Maltese actress
Gillian Avery (born 1926), British children's novelist and literary historian
Gillian Ayres (born 1930), English painter
Gillian Bailey (born 1955), British academic and actress
Gillian Barge (1940-2003), English actress
Gillian Baverstock (1931-2007), British author
Gillian Baxter, British writer
Gillian Beer (born 1935), British literary critic
Gillian Bevan (born 1950), British actress
Gillian Blake (born 1949), British actress
Gillian Blakeney (born 1966), Australian dance musician
Gillian Bonner (born 1966), American model
Gillian Bouras (born 1945), Australian writer
Gillian Boxx (born 1973), American Olympic medalist
Gillian Bradshaw (born 1956), American writer
Gillian Carnegie (born 1971), English artist
Gillian Chan (born 1954), Canadian children's author
Gillian Chung (born 1981), Hong Kong singer
Gillian Clark (aid worker) (circa 1956-2003), Canadian humanitarian
Gillian Clark (born 1961), English badminton player
Gillian Clarke (born 1937), Welsh poet
Gillian Condy (born 1952), South African botanical artist
Gillian Conoley (born 1955), American poet
Gillian Coultard (born 1963), English football player
Gillian Cowley (born 1955), Zimbabwean field hockey player
Gillian Cowlishaw (born 1934), New Zealand-born anthropologist
Gillian Cross (born 1945), English children's writer
Gillian Elisa (born 1953), Welsh actress
Gillian Evans, British philosopher
Gillian Ferrari (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player
Gillian Findlay, Canadian television journalist
Gillian Florence, Canadian rugby union player
Gillian Flynn, American author and television critic
Gillian Foulger, English geologist
Gillian Galbraith, Scottish crime writer
Gillian Gilbert (born 1961), British keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist
Gillian Gilks (born 1950), English badminton player
Gillian Gowers (born 1964), English badminton player
Gillian Greer, New Zealand literary scholar
Gillian Guess (born 1955), Canadian criminal
Gillian Hills (born 1944), film actress
Gillian Horovitz (born 1955), English long-distance runner
Gillian Howell (1927–2000), British architect
Gillian Howie, English philosopher
Gillian Iliana Waters (born 1975), African-American actress
Gillian Jacobs (born 1982), American stage and film actress
Gillian Jones, Australian actress
Gillian Joseph (born 1969), British newscaster
Gillian Kearney (born 1972), English actress
Gillian Knight (born 1934), English singer and actor
Gillian Lindsay (born 1973), Scottish rower
Gillian Lowndes (born 1936), English ceramic sculptor
Gillian Lucky (born 1967), Trinidad and Tobago politician and lawyer
Gillian Lynne (born 1926), British ballerina, actor, theatre and television director, and choreographer
Gillian McConway, English cricketer
Gillian McCutcheon, British actress
Gillian McKeith (born 1959), Scottish non-fiction writer
Gillian Merron (born 1959), British politician
Gillian Moore, retired Australian school principal
Gillian Morgan (born 1953), British civil servant
Gillian Murphy (born 1979), American dancer
Gillian Norris (born 1978), Irish dancer and model
Gillian O'Sullivan (born 1976), Irish race walker
Gillian Oliver, British nurse
Gillian Porter (born 1965), Northern Irish television presenter
Gillian Pugh, British social welfare official
Gillian Rolton (born 1956), Australian equestrian
Gillian Rose (1947-1995), British scholar
Gillian Rose (geographer) (born 1962), British geographer
Gillian Rubinstein (born 1942), Australian children's author and playwright
Gillian Russell (born 1973), Jamaican athlete
Gillian Sewell (born 1972), Canadian field hockey player
Gillian Sheen (1928–2021), British fencer
Gillian Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold (born 1940), British Conservative politician
Gillian Slovo (born 1952), South African novelist, playwright and memoirist
Gillian Small, American biologist
Gillian Smith (born 1965), English cricketer
Gillian Sorensen, senior advisor at the United Nations Foundation
Gillian Spencer (born 1939), American soap opera actress and writer
Gillian Stroudley (1925-1992), English painter and printmaker
Gillian Taylforth (born 1955), English actress
Gillian Akiko Thomson (born 1974), Filipino swimmer
Gillian Tindall, British writer
Gillian Triggs, Australian lawyer
Gillian Vigman (born 1972), American comic actress
Gillian Wearing (born 1963), English artist
Gillian Weir (born 1941), English classical organist
Gillian Welch (born 1967), American singer
Gillian Whitehead (born 1941), New Zealand composer
Gillian Wright, British actress

Surname[]

Mike Gillian (born 1964), American basketball coach

Arts, entertainment, and media[]

Fictional characters[]

Gillian, in the novel Jill by Philip Larkin
Gillian Andrassy, in the soap opera All My Children
Gillian B. Loeb, in the DC universe
Gillian Owens, in the novel and film Practical Magic
Gillian Seed, the protagonist in the cyberpunk video game Snatcher
Gillian Taylor, doctor in the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media[]

"Gillian", a 1996 song on The Waifs (album) by the Australian folk group The Waifs
Gillian, a novel by Frank Yerby