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 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 (given name), Julian, Julio (given name), Julio, Julius (name), Julius, and Julien (given name), Julien. ...

) 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 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 (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player *

Gillian Armstrong Gillian May Armstrong (born 18 December 1950) is an Australian feature film and documentary director, who specializes in period drama. Her films often feature female perspectives and protagonists. Many of her movies are historical dramas. ...

(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 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 (born 1930), English painter * Gillian Bailey (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 ...

(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 Gillian Blake (born 10 May 1949), Buckingham, England is a retired British actress who became well known in the early 1970s as Dora in '' Follyfoot''. Blake studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and began her professional ...

(born 1949), British actress *

Gillian Blakeney Gayle and Gillian Blakeney are Australian identical twins who performed together as actresses and as a dance/pop duo in the 1990s, releasing music under the monikers The Twins and Gayle and Gillian. Born in Brisbane on 9 July 1966, Gayle is ol ...

(born 1966), Australian dance musician *

Gillian Bonner 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 ...

(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 Gillian Clarke (born 8 June 1937) is a Welsh poet and playwright, who also edits, broadcasts, lectures and translates from Welsh into English. She co-founded Tŷ Newydd, a writers' centre in North Wales. Life Gillian Clarke was born on 8 J ...

(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 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 ch ...

(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 Gillian Findlay is a Canadian television journalist who has worked for the CBC and ABC. She studied history and literature at Simon Fraser University and she holds a diploma in broadcast journalism from the British Columbia Institute of Technolog ...

, Canadian television journalist * Gillian Florence, Canadian rugby union player *

Gillian Flynn Gillian Schieber Flynn (; born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer. She is known for writing the thriller and mystery novels, ''Sharp Objects'' (2006), '' Dark Places'' (2009), and '' Gone Girl'' (2012), which are ...

, American author and television critic * Gillian Foulger, English geologist * Gillian Galbraith, Scottish crime writer *

Gillian Gilbert Gillian Lesley Gilbert (born 27 January 1961) is an English musician and singer, best known as the keyboardist and guitarist of the band New Order. Early life Gilbert's family moved from her birthplace, Manchester, to the nearby market town of ...

(born 1961), British keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist *

Gillian Gilks Gillian Gilks (formerly Gillian Perrin, and later Gillian Goodwin; born 20 June 1950) is an English former badminton player who won numerous major titles in all three events (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) between the late 1960s and the ...

(born 1950), English badminton player * Gillian Gowers (born 1964), English badminton player * Gillian Greer, New Zealand literary scholar *

Gillian Guess Gillian Guess (born 1955) is a Vancouver woman who was convicted in 1998 of obstruction of justice after becoming romantically involved with a murder defendant while she was a juror in his 1995 trial. Her case became significant because it set le ...

(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, English philosopher *

Gillian Jacobs Gillian MacLaren Jacobs (; born October 19, 1982) is an American actress and director. She is known for her roles as Britta Perry on the NBC sitcom ''Community'' (2009–2015) and Mickey Dobbs on the Netflix romantic comedy series ''Love'' (2016� ...

(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 serie ...

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

Gillian Kearney Gillian Louise 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 Gillian Lindsay (born 24 September 1973, in Paisley) is a former Team GB Scottish rower. She won silver in the quadruple sculls at the 2000 Summer Olympics silver medalist, and two-time medal winner in the World Championships, taking silver in ...

(born 1973), Scottish rower *

Gillian Lowndes Gillian Lowndes (19 June 1936

(born 1936), English ceramic sculptor * Gillian Lucky (born 1967), Trinidad and Tobago politician and lawyer *

Gillian Lynne Dame Gillian Barbara Lynne (née Pyrke; 20 February 1926 – 1 July 2018) was an English ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director, noted for her theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-runni ...

(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 Gillian McKeith (born 28 September 1959) is a Scottish television personality and writer. She is known for her promotion of various pseudoscientific ideas about health and nutrition. She is the former host of Channel 4's ''You Are What You Eat ...

(born 1959), Scottish non-fiction writer *

Gillian Merron Gillian Joanna Merron, Baroness Merron (born 12 April 1959) is a British politician and life peer serving as Chief Executive of the Board of Deputies of British Jews since 2014. A member of the Labour Party, she has been a shadow spokesperson ...

(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 Gillian O'Sullivan (born 21 August 1976 in Killarney) is an Irish race walker. She set the unofficial world record in the 5000m walk in Belfast, United Kingdom since 2002 however, the IAAF have refused to verify it. She won a silver medal at th ...

(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 Gillian Rolton (3 May 1956 – 18 November 2017) was an Australian Olympic equestrian champion. She competed in two Olympic Games, the 1992 Barcelona Games and 1996 Atlanta Games, winning a gold medal in team eventing both times on her horse ...

(born 1956), Australian equestrian *

Gillian Rose Gillian Rosemary Rose (née Stone; 20 September 1947 – 9 December 1995) was a British philosopher and writer. Rose held the chair of social and political thought at the University of Warwick until 1995. Rose began her teaching career at th ...

(1947–1995), British scholar *

Gillian Rose (geographer) Gillian Rose FBA (born 1962) is a British geographer and geographic author. She is a professor of human geography in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Previously, she taught and served as Associate Dean at ...

(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 (born 1972), Canadian field hockey player *

Gillian Sheen Gillian Mary Donaldson (née Sheen; 21 August 1928 – 5 July 2021) was a British fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition. She won a gold medal in the women's individual foil event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. She also ...

(1928–2021), British fencer *

Gillian Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold Gillian Patricia Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold, (''née'' Watts; born 22 January 1940), is a British Conservative politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk from 1987 to 2005. Shephard served as a Cabin ...

(born 1940), British Conservative politician *

Gillian Slovo Gillian Slovo (born 15 March 1952) is a South African-born writer who lives in the UK. She was a recipient of the Golden PEN Award. Early life and education Gillian Slovo was born on 15 March 1952 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her family moved ...

(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 Gillian Spencer (born December 18, 1939) is an American soap opera actress and writer. She had supporting roles on the soaps ''The Secret Storm'' as Lynn Wilkins Warren from 1961-1962 and ''The Edge of Night'' as Leora Davies in 1963 before join ...

(born 1939), American soap opera actress and writer * Gillian Stroudley (1925–1992), English painter and printmaker *

Gillian Taylforth Gillian Taylforth (born 14 August 1955) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Kathy Beale on the BBC soap opera '' EastEnders'', and has also appeared as Jackie Pascoe/Webb on ITV's ''Footballers' Wives'' (2002–2006), an ...

(born 1955), English actress * Gillian Akiko Thomson (born 1974), Filipino swimmer * Gillian Tindall, British writer *

Gillian Triggs Gillian Doreen Triggs (born 30 October 1945) is an Australian academic specialising in public international law. In 2019, she was appointed by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, A ...

, Australian lawyer *

Gillian Vigman Gillian Vigman (born January 28, 1972) is an American actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She has played Jack Box's Wife in many Jack in the Box commercials, and is a recurring cast member of the sketch comedy series ''MADtv''. Vigman also sta ...

(born 1972), American comic actress *

Gillian Wearing Gillian Wearing CBE, RA (born 10 December 1963) is an English conceptual artist, one of the Young British Artists, and winner of the 1997 Turner Prize. In 2007 Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her ...

(born 1963), English artist * Gillian Weir (born 1941), English classical organist *

Gillian Welch Gillian Howard Welch (; born October 2, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, bluegrass, count ...

(born 1967), American singer * Gillian White (born 1975), American actress *

Gillian Whitehead Dame Gillian Karawe Whitehead (born 23 April 1941) is a New Zealand composer. She is of Māori Ngāi Te Rangi descent. Her Māori heritage has been an important influence on her composing. Early life Whitehead was born in Hamilton in 1941. ...

(born 1941), New Zealand composer *

Gillian Wright Gillian Wright (born 5 May 1960) is an English actress, best known for portraying the role of Jean Slater on the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' since 2004, for which she has won a number of awards. She was a teacher and theatre director before ...

(born 1960), English 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 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 ''Practical Magic'' is a 1998 American fantasy romantic drama film based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Alice Hoffman. The film was directed by Griffin Dunne and stars Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Stockard Channing, Dianne Wiest, Ai ...

'' * 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� ...