Gillian may refer to:

Places

Gillian Settlement, Arkansas Gillian Settlement is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas, United States. It is located at (35.63167, -93.40167) and has an elevation The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference ...

, 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 Julian may refer to: People * Julian (emperor) (331–363), Roman emperor from 361 to 363 * Julian (Rome), referring to the Roman gens Julia, with imperial dynasty offshoots * Saint Julian (disambiguation), several Christian saints * Julian (give ...

, Julio, Julius, and Julien. It is also in use as a surname. Notable people with the name include:

First name

Gillian Alexy Gillian Alexy (born March 13, 1986) is an Australian actress. She is best known for her roles as Tayler Geddes on ''McLeod's Daughters'', Gitta Novak on ''Damages'', and G'Winveer Farrell on ''Outsiders''. Early life Alexy graduated from the Joh ...

(born 1986), Australian actress *

Gillian Allnutt Gillian Allnutt (born 15 January 1949 in London) is an English poet, author of 9 collections and recipient of several prizes including the 2016 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Life Allnutt was born in London, but was educated at La Sagesse Sc ...

(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 Gillian Attard MQR (born 3 February 1983) is a Maltese actress, singer, television personality, and a vocal coach. Early years Attard grew up in Żejtun. She sings in Maltese, English and Italian. She started singing when she was a child. ...

(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 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 ...

(1931–2007), British author *

Gillian Baxter Gillian Baxter (1938) is a British writer of children's books. Her books were mainly pony books about horses, although one book, ''The Knightsgate Players'', was about acting. Baxter also wrote under her married name "Gillian Hirst". Bibliogr ...

, British writer *

Gillian Beer Dame Gillian Patricia Kempster Beer, (née Thomas; born 27 January 1935) is a British literary critic and academic. She was President of Clare Hall from 1994 to 2001, and King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Ca ...

(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 Gillian Bouras (born 1945) is an expatriate Australian writer who has written several books, short stories and articles, many of these dealing with her experiences as an Australian woman in Greece. Life Gillian Bouras was born in Melbourne in ...

(born 1945), Australian writer *

Gillian Boxx Gillian Dewey Boxx (born September 1, 1973) is an American, former collegiate four-time All-American, Gold Medal winning 1996 Olympian, right-handed softball catcher, originally from Torrance, California. She won an Olympic gold medal as a cat ...

(born 1973), American Olympic medalist *

Gillian Bradshaw Gillian Marucha Bradshaw (born May 14, 1956) is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who lives in Britain. Her serious historical novels are of ...

(born 1956), American writer *

Gillian Carnegie Gillian Carnegie (born 1971 in Suffolkbr> is an England, English artist. Carnegie is a graduate of the Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Carnegie works within traditional categories of painting – still life, landscape, ...

(born 1971), English artist *

Gillian Chan Gillian Chan (born 1954) is a Canadian children's author who lives in Dundas, Ontario. She was educated at Orange Hill Grammar School and the University of East Anglia (BEd, 1980). Chan is also the author of a short diary entry of Chin Me ...

(born 1954), Canadian children's author *

Gillian Chung Gillian Chung Ka-lai (born Chung Tik-shan, 21 January 1981), known by her stage name Chung Yan-tung, is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is a member of the Cantopop duo Twins, along with Charlene Choi. Early life Chung was born in Hong K ...

(born 1981), Hong Kong singer *

Gillian Clark (aid worker) Gillian M. Clark (1956 – August 19, 2003) was a Canadian aid worker who was killed in the Canal Hotel bombing in Iraq. Ms. Clark was working for the Christian Children's Fund (CCF) at the time. Education She was a graduate of the Univer ...

(c. 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 Gillian Conoley (born March 29, 1955) is an American poet. Conoley serves as a professor and poet-in-residence at Sonoma State University. Conoley is author of seven collections of poetry. Her work has been anthologized in Norton’s ''American ...

(born 1955), American poet * Gillian Coultard (born 1963), English football player *

Gillian Cowley Gillian Margaret "Gill" Cowley (born July 8, 1955 in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia) is a former hockey player from Zimbabwe, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow Moscow ( , US chi ...

(born 1955), Zimbabwean field hockey player *

Gillian Cowlishaw Gillian Cowlishaw (born 1934) is a New Zealand-born anthropologist whose ethnographic research with Aboriginal Australians, investigates local cultures, histories and the relationship between settler colonialists and Indigenous people. Biogra ...

(born 1934), New Zealand-born anthropologist * Gillian Cross (born 1945), English children's writer * Gillian Elisa (born 1953), Welsh actress *

Gillian Evans Gillian R. Evans is a British philosopher, and emeritus professor of medieval theology and intellectual history at University of Cambridge. Evans was educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham, followed by a degree in history from ...

, British philosopher *

Gillian Ferrari Gillian Ferrari (born June 23, 1980 in Thornhill, Ontario) is a Canadian women's ice hockey player. She was inducted into the Brampton Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. Her mother is from Wales and her father was born in Italy. Playing career As ...

(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 Gillian Hills (born 5 June 1944) is an English actress and singer. She first came to notice as a teenager in the 1960s in the British films ''Beat Girl'' (1960) and '' Blowup'' (1966). She also spent a number of years living in France, where sh ...

(born 1944), film actress * Gillian Horovitz (born 1955), English long-distance runner * Gillian Howell (1927–2000), British architect *

Gillian Howie Gillian Howie (4 October 1965 – 26 March 2013) was a Professor in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool and Director of the Institute for Feminist Theory and Research. She is author of ''Essential Reorientations: feminism and dialectical ma ...

, English philosopher * Gillian Jacobs (born 1982), American stage and film actress *

Gillian Jones Gillian Jones (born 19 April 1947) is an Australian actress from Newcastle, New South Wales who is best known for appearances in ''Twelfth Night'', ''Oscar and Lucinda'', ''Last Train to Freo'' and the role of Di Paige in the television series ...

, Australian actress * Gillian Joseph (born 1969), British newscaster * Gillian Kearney (born 1972), English actress *

Gillian Knight Gillian Knight (born 1 November 1934) is an English opera singer and actress, known for her performances in the contralto roles of the Savoy operas. After six years from 1959 to 1965 starring in these roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company ...

(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 Gillian Elizabeth McConway (born 8 May 1950) is a former cricketer who played as a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. Born in New Zealand but settled in England, she appeared in 14 Test matches and 11 One Day Internationals for England between 1984 ...

, 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 Dame Gillian Morgan DBE (born 1953 in Llwynypia) was Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Assembly Government between May 2008 and August 2012. She has also worked in healthcare and healthcare management and is currently the independent chair of the ...

(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 Dame Gillian Frances Oliver, DBE, FRCN (born 10 October 1943) is a British nursing administrator. An expert in cancer nursing and palliative care, she has been instrumental in developing cancer services, policy and strategy in the UK and beyon ...

(born 1943), British nurse *

Gillian Porter Gillian Porter (born 13 April 1965Gillian 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 Gillian Russell-Love (born 28 September 1973 in St. Andrews) is a Jamaican athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles The 100 metres hurdles, or 100-meter hurdles, is a track and field event run mainly by women (the male ...

(born 1973), Jamaican athlete *

Gillian Sewell Gillian Sewell (born November 1, 1972, in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former Irish Canadian field hockey player who earned 36 international caps for the Canada during her career. On national level Sewell, a resident of Hamilton, Ontario, has ...

(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 Gillian Small is currently the president of World Science University, the higher education arm of World Science Festival Previously, she was the University Provost & Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs aFairleigh Dickinson Universityfrom ...

, American biologist *

Gillian Smith Gillian Anne Smith (born 22 November 1965) is an English former cricketer who played as a right-handed batter and left-arm medium bowler. She appeared in 4 Test matches and 31 One Day Internationals for England between 1986 and 1993. She w ...

(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 Gillian Stroudley née Thain (1925–1992) was an English painter and printmaker. Life and work Gillian Stroudley was born Gillian Thain in Epsom, Surrey in 1925. She studied painting and wood engraving at St. Martin's School of Art between 1945 ...

(1925–1992), English painter and printmaker * Gillian Taylforth (born 1955), English actress *

Gillian Akiko Thomson Gillian Akiko Thomson (born October 8, 1974) is a Filipina television host, journalist and retired swimmer. She is the most accomplished Filipina swimmer in the Southeast Asian Games having won eight gold medals in the biennial multi-sport mee ...

(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 (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 Jill is an English feminine given name, a short form of the name Jillian (Gillian), which in turn originates as a Middle English variant of Juliana, the feminine form of the name Julian. People with the given name *Jill Astbury, Australian res ...

'' by Philip Larkin * Gillian Andrassy, in the soap opera ''All My Children'' *

Gillian B. Loeb Gillian B. Loeb is a fictional character in the DC Universe who serves as an enemy to Batman's ally James Gordon in DC Comics publications. The character was portrayed by Colin McFarlane in ''The Dark Knight'' trilogy and Peter Scolari in the t ...

, 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 Frank Garvin Yerby ( – ) was an American writer, best known for his 1946 historical novel ''The Foxes of Harrow''. Early life Yerby was born in Augusta, Georgia, on September 5, 1916, the second of four children of Rufus Garvin Yerby (1886� ...