Gilbert may refer to:

People and fictional characters

Gilbert (given name) Gilbert is a given name of Norman-French origin, itself from Germanic ''Gisilberht'' or ''Gisalberht''. Original spellings included ''Gislebert'', ''Guilbert'' and ''Gilebert''. The first element, ''Gil-'', comes from Germanic ''gīsil'', meaning ...

, including a list of people and fictional characters * Gilbert (surname), including a list of people

Places

Australia

* Gilbert River (Queensland) * Gilbert River (South Australia)

Kiribati

Gilbert Islands The Gilbert Islands ( gil, Tungaru;Reilly Ridgell. ''Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.'' 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95. formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill IslandsVery often, this n ...

, a chain of atolls and islands in the Pacific Ocean

United States

Gilbert, Arizona Gilbert is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, located southeast of Phoenix within the city's metropolitan area. Incorporated on July 6, 1920, Gilbert was once known as the "Hay Shipping Capital of the World". It is the fifth-larg ...

, a town * Gilbert, Arkansas, a town * Gilbert, Florida, the airport of Winterhaven * Gilbert, Iowa, a city *

Gilbert, Louisiana Gilbert is a village (Louisiana), village in Franklin Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 521 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. The Gilbert welcome sign describes the village as the home of U.S. Lieutenant general, L ...

, a village * Gilbert, Michigan, and unincorporated community *

Gilbert, Minnesota Gilbert is a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,799 at the 2010 census. State Highway 37 (MN 37) and State Highway 135 (MN 135) are two of the main routes in Gilbert. Gilbert is part of the Quad Cities, ...

, a city * Gilbert, Nevada, ghost town * Gilbert, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Gilbert, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * Gilbert, South Carolina, a town * Gilbert, West Virginia, a town *

Gilbert, Wisconsin Gilbert is an unincorporated community located in the town of Bradley, Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States. Gilbert is located at the junction of Wisconsin Highway 107 State Trunk Highway 107 (often called Highway 107, STH-107 or WIS 1 ...

, an unincorporated community * Mount Gilbert (disambiguation), various mountains * Gilbert River (Oregon)

Outer space

* Gilbert (lunar crater) * Gilbert (Martian crater)

Arts and entertainment

Gilbert Collection The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection is a collection of ''objets d'art'' formed by the English-born businessman Sir Arthur Gilbert, who made most of his fortune in the property business in California. After initially becoming interested i ...

, an art collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum *

Gilbert (band) Gilbert is the performance name of Matthew Gilbert Linley, a London-based composer and musician. He is also the drummer in Engineers with Mark Peters and Ulrich Schnauss. Biography Linley grew up in Eltham, South-east London, England. He began ...

, a name used by English composer and musician Matthew Gilbert Linley * ''Gilbert'' (film), a documentary on Gilbert Gottfried

Education

Gilbert Academy Gilbert Academy was a premier preparatory school for African American high school students in New Orleans, Louisiana. Begun in 1863 in New Orleans as a home for colored children orphaned by the American Civil War, the home moved to Baldwin, Loui ...

, a defunct private preparatory school for African Americans in Louisiana *

Gilbert School The Gilbert School is a privately endowed secondary school that serves as the public high school for the towns of Winchester and Hartland, Connecticut and the public middle school for Winchester. The school was founded in 1895 as the result of ...

, a privately endowed secondary school that serves as the public high school for Winchester, Connecticut

Ships

* , a survey ship of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey * , a fisheries research ship of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and (as NOAAS ''Charles H. Gilbert'') the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Other uses

A. C. Gilbert Company The A. C. Gilbert Company was an American toy company, once one of the largest in the world. Gilbert originated the Erector Set, which is a construction toy similar to Meccano in the rest of the world, and made chemistry sets, microscope kits ...

, an American toy company *

Gilbert (unit) The gilbert (symbol: Gb) is an obsolete unit used in practical cgs and CGS-EMU systems to measure magnetomotive force. The unit is named for English physicist William Gilbert. Definition: *1 Gb = (1/4π) Bi-turn Conversion to the ...

, a CGS unit of magnetomotive force *

Gilbert Building (disambiguation) Gilbert Building may refer to: *Gilbert Building (Beaumont, Texas) in Beaumont, Texas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Texas *Gilbert Building (Portland, Oregon), listed on the National Register of Historic P ...

, several buildings on the American National Register of Historic Places * Gilbert Cell, a transistor circuit used in communication electronics *

Gilbert Hill Gilbert Hill is a monolith column of black basalt rock at Andheri, in Mumbai, India. The rock has a sheer vertical face and was formed when molten lava was squeezed out of the Earth's clefts during the Mesozoic Era about 66 million years ago. ...

, a monolith column of black basalt rock in Andheri, India * Gilbert House (disambiguation), various buildings *

Gilbert Model The Gilbert model was developed by Dennis Gilbert as a means of a more effective way of classifying people in a given society into social classes. Influences Karl Marx believed that social class is determined by ownership (or non-ownership) of t ...

, a social class model * Gilbert Rugby, an English sporting-goods manufacturer * Gilbert Street, Adelaide, Australia *

Gilbert's syndrome Gilbert syndrome (GS) is a syndrome in which the liver of affected individuals processes bilirubin more slowly than the majority. Many people never have symptoms. Occasionally jaundice (a slight yellowish color of the skin or whites of the eyes) ...

, a benign medical condition that may cause mild jaundice * Gilbert (typeface), a typeface created in honor of artist Gilbert Baker *

Hurricane Gilbert Hurricane Gilbert was the second most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Atlantic basin in terms of barometric pressure, only behind Hurricane Wilma in 2005. An extremely powerful tropical cyclone that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurr ...

, a 1988 Caribbean hurricane