Pilar is a feminine Spanish language given name; traditionally short for " Maria del Pilar," it may refer to any of the following: * Pilar Arlando (born 1989), Portuguese holder of the title of Miss World Singapore for 2009–2010 *

Pilar Barbosa Pilar Barbosa de Rosario This name uses Spanish marriage naming customs; the first is the maiden family name '' "Barbosa"'' and the second or matrimonial family name is ''de "Rosario"''. (July 4, 1898 – January 22, 1997) was an educator, histor ...

(1898–1997), Puerto Rican educator, historian and political activist * Pilar Bardem (1939–2021), Spanish film and television actress * Pilar Barreiro (born 1955), Spanish politician *

Pilar Barrios Pilar Barrios (1889–1974) was an important poet of the Afro-Uruguayan, black community of Uruguay and one of the founders of the Black Native Party, ''Partido Autóctono Negro''. He demonstrated in his poetry an understanding of the class-based ...

(1889–1974), Uruguayan poet * Pilar Bastardés, Spanish actress *

Pilar Bayer Pilar Bayer Isant (born 1946) is a Spanish mathematician specializing in number theory. She is a professor emerita in the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Barcelona. Education and career Bayer was born in Barcelona ...

(born 1946) Spanish mathematician * Pilar Bosley (born 1988), American ice dancer *

Pilar Cabot Pilar Cabot i Vila (27 September 1940 – 19 May 2017) was a Catalan writer of poetry, children's and adult's books, short stories and prose. She operated her own bookstore CLAM selling Catalan literature in her hometown of Vic from 1965 to 1985. ...

(1940–2017), Catalan writer * Pilar Calvo (born 1963), Catalan politician *

Pilar de Borbón Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz and Viscountess of La Torre (Spanish: ''María del Pilar Alfonsa Juana Victoria Luisa Ignacia y Todos los Santos de Borbón y Borbón''; 30 July 1936 – 8 January 2020), sometimes known more simply as P ...

(1936–2020), Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz * Pilar del Castillo (born 1952), Spanish Member of the European Parliament *

Pilar de Lusarreta Pilar de Lusarreta (1914–1967) was an Argentine author and critic. She coauthored several works with Arturo Cancela Arturo Cancela (1882–1957) was an Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (m ...

(1914–1967), Argentine author and critic * Pilar Fuertes Ferragut (1962–2012), Spanish diplomat *

Pilar Geijo Pilar Geijo (born 19 September 1984 in Buenos Aires) is a Marathon swimmer from Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina ...

(born 1984), Argentine Marathon swimmer *

Pilar Hidalgo Pilar Hidalgo Iglesias (born May 3, 1979 in Cee, A Coruña) is a female athlete from Spain, who competes in triathlon. Hidalgo competed at the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θεριν� ...

(born 1979), Spanish female athlete *

Pilar Hidalgo-Lim Pilar Lardizabal Hidalgo-Lim (May 24, 1893 – December 8, 1973) was a Filipina educator and civic leader. She was married to Brig. Gen. Vicente Lim, World War II hero. Early career and pre-war years Pilar Hidalgo-Lim graduated from the Univer ...

(1893–1973), Filipino educator and civic leader *

Pilar Homem de Melo Pilar Homem de Melo (Lisbon, July 5, 1963) is a Portugal, Portuguese singer-songwriter and one of the main responsible of the New Pop Music in Portugal. Biography Pilar moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1975 along with her family, where meets the most ...

(born 1963), Portuguese singer-songwriter *

Pilar Khoury Pilar Tony Khoury ( ar, بيلار توني خوري; born 25 August 1994) is a Women's association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for French Division 2 Féminine club and the Lebanon women's nation ...

(born 1995), Lebanese footballer *

Pilar López de Ayala Pilar López de Ayala Arroyo (born 18 September 1978) is a Spanish actress. She won a Goya Award for Best Actress for her performance playing Joanna of Castile in 2001 film '' Mad Love''. Family Born in Madrid, López de Ayala has an older br ...

(born 1978), Spanish film actress *

Pilar López Júlvez Pilar López Júlvez (4 June 1912, San Sebastián – 25 March 2008, Madrid) was a Spanish choreographer and ballerina (bailaora). Encarnación López Júlvez (1898-1945), known as ''La Argentinita'', was her older sister. Pilar López was admired ...

(1912–2008), Spanish choreographer and ballerina *

Pilar Lorengar Lorenza Pilar García Seta (16 January 1928 – 2 June 1996), known professionally as Pilar Lorengar, was a Spanish ( Aragonese) soprano. She was best known for her interpretations of opera and the Spanish genre Zarzuela, and as a soprano she wa ...

(1928–1996), Spanish soprano *

Pilar Manjón Pilar Manjón (born 1958) is the president of the ''Asociación 11-M Afectados del Terrorismo'' (''Association for the victims of 11-M''). Biography Manjón was born in Plasencia, Cáceres Province. She is a civil servant and has been a member o ...

(born 1958), president of the association for the victims of 11-M (11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings) *

Pilar Mateos Pilar Mateos Martín (born 13 August 1942 in Valladolid) is a Spanish writer of children's literature. In her tales, she uses a simple vocabulary to talk about isolated, marginal or sad characters. She mixes reality and imagination in works where ...

(born 1942), Spanish writer of children's literature *

Pilar Mazzetti Pilar Elena Mazzetti Soler (born 9 September 1956) is a Peruvian physician and health administrator who served as Minister of Health from July 2020 to February 2021, excluding her for nine days from office during the brief presidency of Manuel Me ...

(born 1946), Peruvian doctor who currently holds the title of Minister of the Interior *

Pilar Medina Pilar Medina Canadell (born ) is a Spanish teacher and beauty queen who was the first Spanish delegate to win the Miss International title in 1977. In 1976, she competed in the Miss Spain pageant, representing ''Región Centro''. As the first ru ...

(born c. 1956), first Spanish delegate to win the Miss International title in 1977 *

Pilar Miró Pilar Mercedes Miró Romero (20 April 1940 in Madrid – 19 October 1997 in Madrid) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director. She was the General Director of RTVE from 1986 to 1989. In the 1990s, she directed the television broadcasts of th ...

(1940–1997), Spanish screenwriter and film director *

Pilar Montenegro Pilar Montenegro (; born María del Pilar Montenegro López on May 31, 1972, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican Latin pop singer and actress. Biography When Montenegro was 10 years old she landed her first acting part in the TV series ''Juguem ...

(born 1969), Mexican Latin pop singer and actress *

Pilar Muñoz Pilar Muñoz Ruiz (March 18, 1911 - October 1, 1980) was a Spanish stage and film actress. Daughter of actor Alfonso Muñoz and sister of actress Mimí Muñoz, she began acting with Margarita Xirgu in 1925. In 1927 she appeared in ''La princes ...

(1911–1980), Spanish actress of stage and film * Pilar Muñoz, Spanish singer, member of the band Las Ketchup *

Pilar Nores de García María del Pilar Nores Bodereau de García (born 11 March 1949) is an Argentine-born Peruvian economist and the widow of former President of Peru Alan García, she was that nation's First Lady on two occasions. Biography Born in Córdoba, Ar ...

(born 1949), Argentine economist *

Pilar Pallete Pilar Pallete (born 3 September 1928) is a Peruvian actress and the widow of American actor John Wayne. Biography Pallete was born as the daughter of a Peruvian senator in the Paita Port (northern Peru). She married and divorced professional bi ...

(born 1936), Peruvian actress and third wife of the American film star John Wayne *

Pilar Paz Pasamar Pilar Paz Pasamar (13 February 1932 - 7 March 2019) was a Spanish poet and writer whose work has been translated into Italian, Arabic, French, English and Chinese. She was a member of the Cádiz branch of the 1950s poetic generation. She was a me ...

(1932–2019), Spanish poet and writer *

Pilar Pellicer María del Pilar Pellicer López de Llergo (12 February 1938 – 16 May 2020) was a Mexican actress. At the 17th Ariel Awards, she won the Ariel Award for Best Actress for her performance in the film ''La Choca'' (1974). Biography Pilar was ...

(1938–2020), Mexican film actress *

Pilar Rahola Pilar Rahola i Martínez (; Barcelona, 21 October 1958) is a Spanish journalist, writer, and former politician and MP. Career Rahola studied Spanish and Catalan Philology at the Universitat de Barcelona. She has published several books in Sp ...

(born 1958), Spanish journalist, writer and former politician and MP *

Pilar Ramírez Pilar Ramírez Laguna (February 28, 1964 – May 24, 2017) was a Mexican competitor in women's synchronized swimming. She represented her native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics, and claimed the bronze medal in duet at the 1983 Pan American ...

(1964–2017), Mexican synchronized swimmer * Pilar Revuelta, Spanish film set decorator and art director *

Pilar Roldán María del Pilar Roldán Tapia (born 18 November 1939 in Mexico City) is a Mexican former foil fencer and the first Mexican woman to win an olympic medal in the history of Olympic fencing. During the 1968 Mexican Olympic Games she was a silver m ...

(born 1939), Mexican fencer *

Pilar Rubio Pilar Rubio Fernández (born 17 March 1978) is a Spanish reporter and TV presenter. She became famous for covering events for the program '' Sé lo que hicisteis...'' for the television network La Sexta. From January 2010 to January 2013 she ...

(born 1978), Spanish reporter and TV presenter *

Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente (born 1964, Barcelona) is an astrophysicist working as a professor at the University of Barcelona. Her work has included research on type Ia supernovae. In 2004, she led the team that searched for the companion star to the whit ...

(born 1964), Spanish astrophysicist working as a professor in University of Barcelona * Pilar Seurat (1938–2001), Filipina-American film and television actress * Pilar Vallugera (born 1967), Catalan politician * Pilar Zeta (born 1986), Argentinean artist, graphic designer, and fashion designer

Fictional characters

* Pilar, from Ernest Hemingway's novel '' For Whom the Bell Tolls'' (also the name of his boat and nickname for his wife) *Pilar Estravados from Agatha Christie' "

Hercule Poirot's Christmas ''Hercule Poirot's Christmas'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 19 December 1938 (although the first edition is copyright dated 1939). It retailed at seven ...

" * Pilar, from Paulo Coelho's novel ''

By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept Paulo Coelho de Souza (, ; born 24 August 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters since 2002. His novel ''The Alchemist'' became an international best-seller and he has published 28 more books ...

'' * Pilar, from the musical '' Legally Blonde (musical)'' * Pilar Cortez, from the ABC television series ''

Last Resort A last resort is something that is used when all other options have been exhausted. Last Resort or The Last Resort may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Last Resort'' (1986 film), starring Charles Grodin—a comedy set on a trop ...

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Pilar Ortega The following is a list of characters from '' Falcon Crest'', an American primetime television soap opera which aired from 1981 to 1990. Cast timeline ;Cast notes Main characters ;Angela Channing (née Gioberti), later Erickson, Stavros, Agre ...

, from the CBS nighttime soap opera ''Falcon Crest'' * Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald, from the NBC/DirecTV soap opera ''Passions'' * Pilar Reed, from the SyFy television series '' Eureka'' * Pilar Ternera, from the novel '' One Hundred Years of Solitude'' * Pilar, a doll in the Groovy Girls line by Manhattan Toy * Pilar Zuazo, from the Showtime dark comedy series ''Weeds'' * Pilar, from Margaret Atwood's novel ''

The Year of the Flood ''The Year of the Flood'' is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, the second book of her dystopian trilogy, released on September 22, 2009, in Canada and the United States, and on September 7, 2009, in the United Kingdom. The novel was ...

'' * Pilar Dunoff, from Argentine soap opera '' Rebelde Way'' {{given name, cat=Spanish feminine given names Catalan feminine given names