Gillian may refer to:

Places

* Gillian Settlement, Arkansas, an unincorporated community

People

Gillian (variant

Jillian Jillian is both a feminine given name and a surname. A spelling variant of Gillian, it originates as a feminine form of the given name Julian, Julio, Julius, and Julien. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Jillian Armenante ...

) 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 Gillian Leigh Anderson ( ; born August 9, 1968) is an American actress. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the series ''The X-Files'', ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies's film '' The House of Mirt ...

(born 1968), American actress *

Gillian Apps Gillian Mary Apps (born November 2, 1983) is a women's ice hockey player. Apps was a member of the Canadian National Hockey Team that won back to back Gold Medals in three consecutive Olympic Games. As a psychology major at Dartmouth College in ...

(born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player * Gillian Armstrong (born 1950), Australian film director * Gillian Attard (born 1983), Maltese actress *

Gillian Avery Gillian Elise Avery (30 September 1926 – 31 January 2016) was a British children's novelist, and a historian of childhood education and children's literature. She won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1972, for ''A Likely Lad.'' It ...

(born 1926), British children's novelist and literary historian *

Gillian Ayres Gillian Ayres (3 February 1930 – 11 April 2018) was an English painter. She is best known for abstract painting and printmaking using vibrant colours, which earned her a Turner Prize nomination. Early life and education Gillian Ayres was bo ...

(born 1930), English painter *

Gillian Bailey Gillian Bailey (born 14 June 1955 in Wimbledon, London), also known as Gilli Bush-Bailey, is a British academic and former actress. She was a child actress and appeared as Billie in '' Here Come the Double Deckers'' (1970–71). Other roles inc ...

(born 1955), British academic and actress *

Gillian Barge Gillian Barge (born Gillian Betty Bargh, 27 May 1940 – 19 November 2003) was an English stage, television and film actress. She was born in Hastings, Sussex. She started acting at the age of 17, training at the Birmingham Theatre School ...

(1940–2003), English actress *

Gillian Baverstock Gillian Mary Baverstock (born Pollock; 15 July 1931 – 24 June 2007) was a British author, non-fiction writer and memoirist. She was the elder daughter of English novelist Enid Blyton and her first husband, Hugh Pollock. She wrote and spoke t ...

(1931–2007), British author * Gillian Baxter, British writer * Gillian Beer (born 1935), British literary critic *

Gillian Bevan Gillian Bevan (born 13 February 1956) is an English actress, best known for her roles in British television shows and West End theatre. In 1988 she played Dorothy in the Royal Shakespeare Company's revival of their version of '' The Wizard of O ...

(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) (c. 1956–2003), Canadian humanitarian * Gillian Clark (badminton), 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 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 (born 1939), 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 (born 1943), 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 White (actress), Gillian White (born 1975), American actress * Gillian Whitehead (born 1941), New Zealand composer * Gillian Wright (born 1960), English actress

Surname

* Mike Gillian (born 1964), American basketball coach

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Gillian, in the novel ''Jill (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 (novel), Practical Magic'' * Gillian Seed, the protagonist in the cyberpunk video game ''Snatcher (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), ''The Waifs'' (album) by the Australian folk group The Waifs * ''Gillian'', a novel by Frank Yerby