Lillian (given name)
Lillian, also spelled Lilian, Lilliann, or Lilliane, is a female given name. Its origin is the Latin word Lilium.
In French, Lilian is the male form of the name, while Liliane is the female form. The first time this name became popular was in the early 1700s, with the expansion of the French colonial empire around the world.
People
- Princess Lilian of Belgium, wife of King Leopold III of Belgium
- Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, wife of Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland of Sweden
- Lillian Aber, Ugandan politician
- Lillian Albertson, American actress and theatrical producer
- Lillian B. Allen, Canadian painter
- Lillian Allen, Canadian dub poet, musician, and writer
- Lillian Alling, American woman who attempted to return to Eastern Europe on foot
- Lillian Bassman, American photographer and painter
- Lilian Bennett, British businesswoman
- Lillian Bilocca, British fisheries worker and campaigner
- Lillian Boutté, American jazz singer
- Lillian Boyer, American wing walker
- Lillian Briggs, American performer and musician
- Lillian Bronson, American actress
- Lillian Cahn, American fashion designer
- Lilian Calmejane, French cyclist
- Lillian Gordy Carter, American nurse and mother of Jimmy Carter
- Lillian Chrystall, New Zealand architect
- Lillian Cohen, American chemist and professor
- Lilian Constantini, French actress
- Lillian Copeland, American athlete
- Lillian Crombie, Australian actress and dancer
- Lillian Day, American novelist and playwright
- Lillian Dickson, American missionary
- Lilian Dikmans, Australian model and Muay Thai fighter
- Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney
- Lillian Dube, South African actress
- Lillian Dyck, Canadian politician
- Lilian Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan Sinhala actress
- Lillian Elidah, Zambian chef
- Lillian Evanti, American opera singer
- Lillian Faderman, American historian
- Lillian Florsheim, American sculptor
- Lilian Fowler, Australian politician
- Lillian Frank, Australian hairdresser
- Lillian Freehof, American writer
- Lillian Fuchs, American violist and composer
- Lilian Garcia, American singer and ring announcer
- Lillian Garrett-Groag, Argentine playwright, theatre director and actor
- Lillian Gilkes, American author and educator
- Lillian Gish, American actress
- Lillian Glass, American writer and activist
- Lillian Greene-Chamberlain, American sprinter
- Lilian Greenwood, British politician
- Lillian Greneker, American businesswoman, inventor, and mannequin designer
- Lilian Greuze, French model
- Lilian Helder, Dutch politician
- Lillian Hellman, American playwright
- Lillian Herlein, American actress and singer
- Lillian Hoban, American author
- Lillian Hoddeson, American historian
- Lillian Holley, American sheriff
- Lillian Hurst, Puerto Rican actress and comedian
- Lillian Jones, Scottish politician
- Lillian G. Kohlhamer, American suffragist and peace activist
- Lilian Laslandes, French footballer
- Lillian Lawrence, American actress
- Lillian Leach, American singer
- Lillian Lehman, American actress
- Lillian Leitzel, German-American acrobat and entertainer
- Lilian Lee, Chinese author
- Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla and revolutionary
- Lillian Lewis, multiple people
- Lilian Leveridge, British-Canadian teacher and writer
- Lillian Li, Chinese-American author
- Lillian Lorraine, American film actress
- Lilian Managa, South African politician
- Lillian Metge née Grubb, Anglo-Irish suffragette and women's rights campaigner
- Lillian Michelson, American film scholar and researcher
- Lillian Miles, American actress
- Lillian Molieri, Nicaraguan actress and dancer
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American psychologist and industrial engineer
- Lilian Moore, American author of children's books, teacher and poet
- Lillian Morrison, American poet
- Lillian Müller, Norwegian model and actress
- Lillian Nakate, Ugandan civil engineer and politician
- Lilian Ngoyi, South African anti-apartheid activist
- Lillian Nordica, American operatic soprano
- Lillian O'Donnell, American writer
- Lillian Offitt, American singer
- Lillian Orlowsky, American artist
- Lillian Palmer (disambiguation), multiple people
- Lillian Hoxie Picken, American educator and textbook compiler
- Lillian Powell, American actress
- Lilian Prunet, French ice hockey player
- Lillian Pulitzer Rousseau, American fashion designer
- Lillian Randolph, American actress and singer
- Lillian Rich, English actress
- Lillian Richard, African-American actress
- Lillian Roberts, American activist
- Lillian Robinson, American Marxist feminist activist, writer, and theorist
- Lilian Rolfe, Allied secret agent in World War II
- Lillian Ross, Canadian politician
- Lillian Ross, American journalist and writer
- Lillian Roth, American actress and singer
- Lillian Roxon, Australian music journalist
- Lillian Schwartz, American artist
- Lillian Shirt, Cree activist
- Lillian Smith, multiple people
- *Lillian Smith, American author
- Lillian Carpenter Streeter, American social reformer, clubwoman, author
- Lilian Thuram, French footballer
- Lillian Too, Malaysian author, television personality and feng shui practitioner
- Lillian Trasher, American Christian missionary
- Lilian Uchtenhagen, Swiss economist and politician
- Lillian Vickers-Smith, Florida sports editor
- Lilian Virgin, Swedish politician
- Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer, American artist, architect, and women's rights activist
- Lillian Wald, American nurse, humanitarian activist, and author
- Lillian Walker, American actress
- Lilian Wells, Australian Congregational and Uniting Church of Australia church leader
- Lillian West, American actress
- Lillian Wheeler, Australian actress
- Lillian Worth, American actress
- Lillian Yarbo, American actress, dancer and singer
- Lillian Zabar, American entrepreneur
- Lillian Zinkant, Irish camogie player
Fictional characters
- Lilian, the secondary protagonist from the 2023 concept album Anno 1696 by Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium
- Lillian, a character in the American sitcom television series Charles in Charge
- Lilian, the English name of Yuriko from the 2004 animated series Futari wa Pretty Cure
- Cure Lillian, a main character in the series Wonderful PreCure!
- Lillian DeVille, from the Nickelodeon TV series Rugrats and All Grown Up!
- Lillian Kaushtupper, landlady of Kimmy and Titus in the Netflix original series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
- Queen Lillian, mother of Fiona in the Shrek movie series
- Lillian Rearden, character in the book Atlas Shrugged
- Lilly Truscott, from the Hannah Montana TV series
- Lillian van der Woodsen, mother of Serena van der Woodsen in the Gossip Girl TV series
- Lillian Garner, character in the book Beloved
- Lilian Peck, character from the lore of the game ''Apex Legends''