Gil or GIL may refer to:
Places
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Gil Island (disambiguation), one of several islands by that name
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Gil, Iran
Qil (, also Romanized as Qīl; also known as Ghail, Gheyl, Ghīl, Gīl, and Kheyl) is a village in Hengam Rural District, Shahab District, Qeshm County, Hormozgan Province, Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and ...
, a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran
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Hil, Azerbaijan
Hil (also, Gil’, ) is a village and the most populous municipality, except for the capital Qusar, in the Qusar Rayon of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinent ...
, also spelled ''Gil, a village in Azerbaijan
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Hiloba
Hiloba (also, Gil’, Gil’-Kish, and Gil’oba) is a village and municipality in the Qusar Rayon of Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a Boundaries between the continents, transcontinental and landlocked cou ...
, also spelled ''Gil, a village in Azerbaijan
People
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Gil (given name) Gil is a masculine given name, often a diminutive form (hypocorism) of Gilbert (given name), Gilbert. Another version of this name is Gill (name), Gill. It may refer to:
People
* Gil Amelio (born 1943), technology executive and former CEO of Apple ...
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Gil (surname)
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Gil (Korean surname)
Gil or Kil () is a Korean family name. The 2015 South Korean census found that there were 38,173 people with this family name. The most well-known clan is the Haepyeong Gil clan.
People
Korean people with this surname include:
* Kil Chae (13 ...
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Gil (footballer, born 1950), Brazilian footballer, Gilberto Alves
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Gil (footballer, born June 1987)
Carlos Gilberto Nascimento Silva (born 12 June 1987), commonly known as Gil (), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Santos.
Club career Early career
Born in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Gil began h ...
, Brazilian footballer, Carlos Gilberto Nascimento Silva
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Gil (footballer, born September 1987), Brazilian footballer, José Gildeixon Clemente de Paiva
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Gil (footballer, born 1991)
Givanilton Martins Ferreira (born 13 April 1991), commonly known as Gil, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a winger.
Club career
Born in Irecê, Gil graduated from the youth setup of Vila Nova and was promoted to the senior ...
, Brazilian footballer, Givanilton Martins Ferreira
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José Gildeixon Clemente de Paiva (1987–2016), Brazilian footballer
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Gil Gomes
Nélson Gil de Almeida Gomes (born 2 December 1972) is a Portuguese former footballer who played as a forward.
Football career
Born in Luanda, Portuguese Angola, Gomes moved to Portugal at a young age, joining S.L. Benfica's youth system at the ...
(born 1972), Portuguese retired footballer
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Gilberto Ribeiro Gonçalves
Gilberto Ribeiro Gonçalves (born 13 September 1980 in Andradina), commonly known as Gil () is a Brazilian former footballer who played as a forward. He was formally a Brazilian international.
Club career
Early years
Gil grew up in a small ...
(born 1980), Brazilian footballer
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Gilmelândia
Gilmelândia Palmeira dos Santos (born Salvador, Bahia, 20 September 1975) known as Gil or Gilmelândia, is a Brazilian singer, actress and TV presenter. Her unusual first name, which is abbreviated on her CD covers to "Gil", was created by her pa ...
(born 1975), Brazilian singer known as "Gil"
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Gill (musician)
Gil Seong-joon (; born December 24, 1977), better known by his stage name Gill (), is a South Korean singer and television personality. He was the main singer of former South Korean hip-hop duo, Leessang.
In 2009, Gil joined Infinite Challen ...
(born 1977), South Korean singer
Fiction
* Gil, a non-canon ''Star Trek''
Cardassian military rank
The Cardassians () are a fictional Extraterrestrial life in popular culture, extraterrestrial species in the American science fiction franchise ''Star Trek''. They were devised in 1991 for the series ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' before b ...
* Gil, the currency used in the ''
Final Fantasy
is a Japanese fantasy Anthology series, anthology media franchise created by Hironobu Sakaguchi which is owned, developed, and published by Square Enix (formerly Square (video game company), Square). The franchise centers on a series of fanta ...
'' games
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Gil Yepes
José Antonio Gil Yepes is a Venezuelan sociologist president of the polling firm Datanálisis between 1989 and 2011.DatanalisiSite Web Datanalisis He was professor at the Venezuelan business school Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administrac ...
'', the main antagonist of the 2011 French adult animated sci-fi psychological thriller film ''
The Prodigies
"The Prodigies" is a short story by Willa Cather. It was first published in ''Home Monthly'' in July 1897.
Plot summary
The Mackenzies are invited to the Masseys' at four in the afternoon to hear their children, Hermann and Ad, sing. Later, Mr. ...
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Politics
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Gil (political party)
Dor (), known as Gil (, an abbreviation of ''Gimla'ey Yisrael LaKnesset'' (Hebrew: גימלאי ישראל לכנסת), ) until 2012, is a centrist political party in Israel and was part of the governing coalition in the seventeenth Knesset. I ...
(Pensioners of Israel to the Knesset, Gimla'ey Yisrael LaKnesset), a former Israeli political party later known as Dor
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Independent Liberal Group (''Grupo Independiente Liberal'' in Spanish), a former Spanish political party
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Gioventù Italiana del Littorio
The ''Gioventù Italiana del Littorio'' (GIL) (English: Italian Youth of the Lictor) was the consolidated youth movement of the National Fascist Party of Italy that was established in 1937, to replace the ''Opera Nazionale Balilla'' (ONB). It was ...
(''Italian Youth of the Lictor''), youth movement of the National Fascist Party of Italy
* ''Initiative and Liberty Groups'', the initial name for the
Initiative and Liberty Movement
The Initiative and Liberty Movement (, MIL) is a French Gaullist political association.
History
First called GIL (Initiative and Liberty Groups), it was established in March 1981 and became the Initiative and Liberty Movement on November 17, 1 ...
, a French Gaullist political association
Transport
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Gilgit Airport
Gilgit Airport is a small domestic airport situated 1.25 nautical mile, nm (2.3 km) east of Gilgit,Aeronautical Information Publication, AIP PakistanOPGT – Gilgit
a city in the Gilgit-Baltistan territory of Pakistan. The city of Gilgit i ...
, IATA code
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Gillingham railway station (Dorset)
Gillingham railway station serves the town of Gillingham, Dorset, England. It is on the West of England Main Line, down the line from . Today it is managed by South Western Railway. The main offices, designed by Sir William Tite, stand on t ...
, Dorset, England, National Rail station code
Other uses
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Tropical Storm Gil (disambiguation) The name Gil has been used for eight tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure area, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that ...
, refers to several tropical storms
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Gilbertese language
Gilbertese (), also known as Kiribati (sometimes ''Kiribatese'' or ''Tungaru''), is an Austronesian language spoken mainly in Kiribati. It belongs to the Micronesian branch of the Oceanic languages.
The word ''Kiribati'', the current name of t ...
, ISO 639 code
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Generic Image Library Generic Image Library (GIL), is an open source generic programming library created by Adobe Systems
Adobe Inc. ( ), formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American software, computer software company based in San Jose, California. It offer ...
, a generic programming library for image processing by Adobe Systems
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Global interpreter lock
A global interpreter lock (GIL) is a mechanism used in computer-language Interpreter (computing), interpreters to synchronize the execution of Threads (computer science), threads so that only one native thread (per process) can execute basic ope ...
, in interpreter programs
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''Gil'' (comic strip)
See also
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Gill (disambiguation)
A gill is an aquatic respiratory organ.
Gill or Gills may also refer to:
Place names
United Kingdom
* Gill (ravine), generic term for a narrow valley in Northern England and parts of Scotland
* Gills, Caithness, a township
* The Gill, a natur ...
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Gilbert (disambiguation) Gilbert may refer to:
People and fictional characters
*Gilbert (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
*Gilbert (surname), including a list of people
Places Australia
* Gilbert River (Queensland)
* Gilbert River (South A ...
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Gilberto
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