Pilar (given name)
Pilar is a feminine Spanish language given name, traditionally short for "Maria del Pilar". Notable people with the name include:
Female
- Pilar Adón, Spanish writer and translator
- Pilar Arlando, Portuguese holder of the title of Miss World Singapore for 2009–2010
- Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican educator, historian and political activist
- Pilar Bardem, Spanish film and television actress
- Pilar Barreiro, Spanish politician
- Pilar Bayer, Spanish mathematician
- Pilar Cabot, Catalan writer
- Pilar Calveiro, Argentine political scientist
- Pilar Calvo, Catalan politician
- Pilar Calvo Rodero, sculptor, costume designer, set designer
- Pilar Campoy, Argentine field hockey player
- Pilar Cattaneo, Argentine gymnast
- Pilar De Biase, Argentine field hockey player
- Pilar de Borbón, Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz
- Pilar del Castillo, Spanish Member of the European Parliament
- Pilar de Lusarreta, Argentine author and critic
- Pilar Fuertes Ferragut, Spanish diplomat
- Pilar Geijo, Argentine Marathon swimmer
- Pilar González i Duarte, Spanish chemist
- Pilar Hidalgo, Spanish female athlete
- Pilar Hidalgo-Lim, Filipino educator and civic leader
- Pilar Homem de Melo, Portuguese singer-songwriter
- Pilar Khoury, Lebanese footballer
- Pilar López de Ayala, Spanish film actress
- Pilar López Júlvez, Spanish choreographer and ballerina
- Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano
- Pilar Manjón, president of the association for the victims of 11-M
- Pilar Mateos, Spanish writer of children's literature
- Pilar Mazzetti, Peruvian doctor who currently holds the title of Minister of the Interior
- Pilar Medina, first Spanish delegate to win the Miss International title in 1977
- Pilar Miró, Spanish screenwriter and film director
- Pilar Montenegro, Mexican Latin pop singer and actress
- Pilar Muñoz, Spanish actress of stage and film
- Pilar Muñoz, Spanish singer, member of the band Las Ketchup
- Pilar Nores de García, Argentine economist
- Pilar Nouvilas i Garrigolas, Spanish painter
- Pilar Pallete, Peruvian actress and third wife of the American film star John Wayne
- Pilar Paz Pasamar, Spanish poet and writer
- Pilar Pellicer, Mexican film actress
- Pilar Prades, last Spanish woman to be executed by garrote
- Pilar Rahola, Spanish journalist, writer and former politician and MP
- Pilar Ramírez, Mexican synchronized swimmer
- Pilar Revuelta, Spanish film set decorator and art director
- Pilar Rioja, Mexican dancer
- Pilar Roldán, Mexican fencer
- Pilar Romang, Argentine field hockey player
- Pilar Romero, Argentine handball player
- Pilar Rubio, Spanish reporter and TV presenter
- Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente, Spanish astrophysicist working as a professor in University of Barcelona
- Pilar Seurat, Filipina-American film and television actress
- Pilar Vallugera, Catalan politician
- Pilar Zabala Aguirre, Spanish researcher, writer, and professor
- Pilar Zeta, Argentine artist, graphic designer, and fashion designer
Male
- Pilar Barrios, Uruguayan poet
- Pilar García (brigadier general), Cuban Chief of National Police in 1958 and 1959
Fictional characters
- Pilar, from Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Cyberpunk: Edgerunners#Characters, a fictional character and techie in the original net animated miniseries Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, based on the action role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077
- Pilar Estravados from Agatha Christie' "Hercule Poirot's Christmas"
- Pilar, from Paulo Coelho's novel By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
- Pilar, from the musical Legally Blonde (musical)
- Pilar Cortez, from the ABC television series Last Resort
- Pilar Ortega, 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
- Pilar Dunoff, from Argentine soap opera Rebelde Way
- Pilar, from Emeric Pressburger's Killing a Mouse on Sunday
- Pilar, from the 2025 Spanish comedy television series soap opera ''Su majestad''