Gail (given name)
Gail is a masculine and feminine given name. As a feminine name, it can be a short form of the name Abigail.
Gail has been used as a masculine and feminine name, and until the 1930s, was equally common on both sexes. Between the 1930s and 1960s, its use as a feminine name increased, as a consequence marginalizing masculine usage by about 1960.
Alternate spellings include Gaile, Gale, and Gayle.
Notable people with the given name include:
- Gail Beggs, Canadian government minister
- Gail Boggs, American actress
- Gail Borden, American inventor
- Gail Borden (figure skater), American figure skater
- Gail Brodsky, American tennis player
- Gail Bruce, American football player
- Gail Collins, American journalist
- Gail Cronauer, American actress
- Gail Davies,, American country singer/songwriter
- Gail Devers, American athlete
- Gail Ann Dorsey, American musician
- Gail Emms, British badminton player
- Gail Finney, American businesswoman and politician
- Gail Fisher, American actress
- Gail Goodrich, American basketball player
- Gail Grandchamp, American boxer
- Gail Halvorsen, American air force pilot
- Gail Jonson, New Zealand swimmer
- Gail Kim, Canadian wrestler
- Gail Carson Levine, American writer
- Gail Nkoane Mabalane, South African actress and model
- Gail Miller (water polo), Australian water polo player
- Gail Minault, American historian
- Gail Novinger, American politician from Missouri
- Gail O'Grady, American actress
- Gail Phillips, American politician
- Gail Porter, British television presenter
- Gail Ryan, American hairstylist
- Gail Sanborn, American politician
- Gail Shapiro, American pediatric allergist
- Gail Sheehy, American writer
- Gail Simmons, Canadian food critic
- Gail Simone, American comics writer
- Gail Skare, American politician
- Gail Tipa, New Zealand resource management planner
Fictional characters
- Gail, fictional comics character created by French cartoonist Philippe Druillet
- Gail, fictional character in the 1999 video game Dino Crisis
- Gail Leery, fictional character in the television series Dawson's Creek
- Gail Platt, fictional character in the television series Coronation Street
- Gail Wynand, fictional character in the 1943 novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Gail Peck, a fictional character from the TV series Rookie Blue
- Gail Hailstorm, fictional character from ''Scary Movie''