Gillian
Gillian may refer to:
Places
- Gillian Settlement, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
People
Gillian is an English feminine given name, frequently shortened to Gill.It originates as a feminine form of the name Julian, Julio, Julius, and Julien. It is also in use as a surname.
Notable people with the name include:
First name
- Gillian Alexy, Australian actress
- Gillian Allnutt, English poet
- Gillian Anderson, American actress
- Gillian Apps, Canadian ice hockey player
- Gillian Armstrong, Australian film director
- Gillian Avery, British children's novelist and literary historian
- Gillian Ayres, English painter
- Gillian Bailey, British academic and actress
- Gillian Barge, English actress
- Gillian Baverstock, British author
- Gillian Baxter, British children's book writer
- Gillian Beer, British literary critic
- Gillian Bevan, British actress
- Gillian Blake, British actress
- Gillian Blakeney, Australian dance musician
- Gillian Bonner, American model
- Gillian Bouras, Australian writer
- Gillian Boxx, American Olympic medalist
- Gillian Bradshaw, American writer
- Gillian Carnegie, English artist
- Gillian Chan, Canadian children's author
- Gillian Chung, Hong Kong singer
- Gillian Clark (aid worker), Canadian humanitarian
- Gillian Clark, English badminton player
- Gillian Clarke, Welsh poet
- Gillian Condy, South African botanical artist
- Gillian Conoley, American poet
- Gillian Coultard, English football player
- Gillian Cowley, Zimbabwean field hockey player
- Gillian Cowlishaw, New Zealand-born anthropologist
- Gillian Cross, English children's writer
- Gillian Elisa, Welsh actress
- Gillian Evans, British philosopher
- Gillian Ferrari, Canadian ice hockey player
- Gillian Findlay, Canadian television journalist
- Gillian Florence, Canadian rugby union player
- Gillian Flynn, American author and television critic
- Gillian Forrester, psychologist and cognitive science researcher
- Gillian Foulger, English geologist
- Gillian Galbraith, Scottish crime writer
- Gillian Gilbert, British keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist
- Gillian Gilks, English badminton player
- Gillian Gowers, English badminton player
- Gillian Greer, New Zealand literary scholar
- Gillian Guess, Canadian criminal
- Gillian Hills, film actress
- Gillian Horovitz, English long-distance runner
- Gillian Howell, British architect
- Gillian Howie, English philosopher
- Gillian Jacobs, American stage and film actress
- Gillian Jones, Australian actress
- Gillian Joseph, British newscaster
- Gillian Kearney, English actress
- Gillian Knight, English singer and actor
- Gillian Lindsay, Scottish rower
- Gillian Lowndes, English ceramic sculptor
- Gillian Lucky, Trinidad and Tobago politician and lawyer
- Gillian Lynne, British ballerina, actor, theatre and television director, and choreographer
- Gillian McConway, English cricketer
- Gillian McCutcheon, British actress
- Gillian McKeith, Scottish non-fiction writer
- Gillian Merron, British politician
- Gillian Moore (headteacher), retired Australian school principal
- Gillian Moore, English chess player
- Gillian Morgan, British civil servant
- Gillian Murphy, American dancer
- Gillian Norris, Irish dancer and model
- Gillian O'Sullivan, Irish race walker
- Gillian Oliver, British nurse
- Gillian Porter, Northern Irish television presenter
- Gillian Pugh, British social welfare official
- Gillian Rolton, Australian equestrian
- Gillian Rose, British scholar
- Gillian Rose (geographer), British geographer
- Gillian Rubinstein, Australian children's author and playwright
- Gillian Russell, Jamaican athlete
- Gillian Sewell, Canadian field hockey player
- Gillian Sheen, British fencer
- Gillian Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold, British Conservative politician
- Gillian Slovo, South African novelist, playwright and memoirist
- Gillian Small, American biologist
- Gillian Smith, English cricketer
- Gillian Sorensen, senior advisor at the United Nations Foundation
- Gillian Spencer, American soap opera actress and writer
- Gillian Stroudley, English painter and printmaker
- Gillian Taylforth, English actress
- Gillian Akiko Thomson, Filipino swimmer
- Gillian Tindall, British writer
- Gillian Triggs, Australian lawyer
- Gillian Vigman, American comic actress
- Gillian Wearing, English artist
- Gillian Weir, English classical organist
- Gillian Welch, American singer
- Gillian White, American actress
- Gillian Whitehead, New Zealand composer
- Gillian Wright, English actress
Surname
- Mike Gillian, 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, 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 WaifsGillian, a novel by Frank Yerby