Gilead (disambiguation)

Gilead (Hebrew: ) is the name of three persons and two places in the Bible.

Gilead may also refer to:

Australia

 * Gilead, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney

United States

 * Gilead, Connecticut, a village in the town of Hebron
 * Gilead, Illinois, an unincorporated community
 * Gilead, Indiana, an unincorporated community
 * Gilead, Maine, a town
 * Former Gilead Railroad Station, Maine, on the National Register of Historic Places
 * Gilead Township, Michigan
 * Gilead, Missouri, an unincorporated community
 * Gilead, Nebraska, a village
 * Lake Gilead, New York, a reservoir
 * Gilead Township, Morrow County, Ohio

People with the name

 * Gilead Sher (born 1953), Israeli attorney, government official and peace negotiator
 * Gilead J. Wilmot (1834–?), American politician

Arts and entertainment

 * Gil'ead, a city in the kingdom of Alagaësia in Christopher Paolini's novel Eragon
 * Gilead, the fictional birthplace of Roland Deschain in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels
 * Republic of Gilead, the fictional totalitarian theocratic nation in Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale
 * Gilead (novel), a 2004 novel by Marilynne Robinson
 * Gilead, a novelette by Zenna Henderson in her Ingathering series

Other uses

 * Gilead Sciences, an American biopharmaceutical company based in California
 * Watchtower Bible School of Gilead, Jehovah's Witnesses' missionary training program in New York state, aka the Gilead School
 * Gilead (tribal group), mentioned in the Bible
 * Gilead, a Jaredite military commander in the Book of Mormon