Gildea
Gildea is a surname.
Although spelled "Gildea", the name is pronounced "gill-day", rhyming with the Irish surname "O'Shea".
Notable people with the surname include:
- Damien Gildea, Australian mountaineer and Antarctic explorer
- *the Gildea Glacier is named after him
- Harry Gildea, Scottish footballer
- James Gildea, British Army officer and philanthropist
- James H. Gildea, American newspaperman and Democratic member of the US House of Representatives
- John Gildea, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Johnny Gildea, American football player
- Lorie Skjerven Gildea,, attorney and Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
- Peter Gildea, Scottish footballer
- Robert Gildea, professor of Modern History at Oxford University
- Tom Gildea, Irish independent politician
- Willie Gildea, Scottish footballer