Gillian

Gillian may refer to:

Places

 * Gillian Settlement, Arkansas, an unincorporated community

People
Gillian (variant Jillian) 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 (born 1986), Australian actress
 * Gillian Allnutt (born 1949), English poet
 * Gillian Anderson (born 1968), American actress
 * Gillian Apps (born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Gillian Armstrong (born 1950), Australian film director
 * Gillian Avery (1926–2016), British children's novelist and literary historian
 * Gillian Ayres (1930–2018), English painter
 * Gillian Bailey (born 1955), British academic and actress
 * Gillian Barge (1940–2003), English actress
 * Gillian Baverstock (1931–2007), British author
 * Gillian Baxter, British writer
 * Gillian Beer (born 1935), British literary critic
 * Gillian Bevan (born 1950), British actress
 * Gillian Blake (born 1949), British actress
 * Gillian Blakeney (born 1966), Australian dance musician
 * Gillian Bonner (born 1966), American model
 * Gillian Bouras (born 1945), Australian writer
 * Gillian Boxx (born 1973), American Olympic medalist
 * Gillian Bradshaw (born 1956), American writer
 * Gillian Carnegie (born 1971), English artist
 * Gillian Chan (born 1954), Canadian children's author
 * Gillian Chung (born 1981), Hong Kong singer
 * Gillian Clark (aid worker) (c. 1956–2003), Canadian humanitarian
 * Gillian Clark (born 1961), English badminton player
 * Gillian Clarke (born 1937), Welsh poet
 * Gillian Condy (born 1952), South African botanical artist
 * Gillian Conoley (born 1955), American poet
 * Gillian Coultard (born 1963), English football player
 * Gillian Cowley (born 1955), Zimbabwean field hockey player
 * Gillian Cowlishaw (born 1934), New Zealand-born anthropologist
 * Gillian Cross (born 1945), English children's writer
 * Gillian Elisa (born 1953), Welsh actress
 * Gillian Evans, British philosopher
 * Gillian Ferrari (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Gillian Findlay, Canadian television journalist
 * Gillian Florence, Canadian rugby union player
 * Gillian Flynn, American author and television critic
 * Gillian Foulger, English geologist
 * Gillian Galbraith, Scottish crime writer
 * Gillian Gilbert (born 1961), British keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist
 * Gillian Gilks (born 1950), English badminton player
 * Gillian Gowers (born 1964), English badminton player
 * Gillian Greer, New Zealand literary scholar
 * Gillian Guess (born 1955), Canadian criminal
 * Gillian Hills (born 1944), film actress
 * Gillian Horovitz (born 1955), English long-distance runner
 * Gillian Howell (1927–2000), British architect
 * Gillian Howie, English philosopher
 * Gillian Jacobs (born 1982), American stage and film actress
 * Gillian Jones, Australian actress
 * Gillian Joseph (born 1969), British newscaster
 * Gillian Kearney (born 1972), English actress
 * Gillian Knight (born 1934), English singer and actor
 * Gillian Lindsay (born 1973), Scottish rower
 * Gillian Lowndes (1936–2010), English ceramic sculptor
 * Gillian Lucky (born 1967), Trinidad and Tobago politician and lawyer
 * Gillian Lynne (1926–2018), British ballerina, actor, theatre and television director, and choreographer
 * Gillian McConway, English cricketer
 * Gillian McCutcheon (born 1939), British actress
 * Gillian McKeith (born 1959), Scottish non-fiction writer
 * Gillian Merron (born 1959), British politician
 * Gillian Moore, retired Australian school principal
 * Gillian Morgan (born 1953), British civil servant
 * Gillian Murphy (born 1979), American dancer
 * Gillian Norris (born 1978), Irish dancer and model
 * Gillian O'Sullivan (born 1976), Irish race walker
 * Gillian Oliver (born 1943), British nurse
 * Gillian Porter (born 1965), Northern Irish television presenter
 * Gillian Pugh, British social welfare official
 * Gillian Rolton (1956–2017), Australian equestrian
 * Gillian Rose (1947–1995), British scholar
 * Gillian Rose (geographer) (born 1962), British geographer
 * Gillian Rubinstein (born 1942), Australian children's author and playwright
 * Gillian Russell (born 1973), Jamaican athlete
 * Gillian Sewell (born 1972), Canadian field hockey player
 * Gillian Sheen (1928–2021), British fencer
 * Gillian Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold (born 1940), British Conservative politician
 * Gillian Slovo (born 1952), South African novelist, playwright and memoirist
 * Gillian Small, American biologist
 * Gillian Smith (born 1965), English cricketer
 * Gillian Sorensen, senior advisor at the United Nations Foundation
 * Gillian Spencer (born 1939), American soap opera actress and writer
 * Gillian Stroudley (1925–1992), English painter and printmaker
 * Gillian Taylforth (born 1955), English actress
 * Gillian Akiko Thomson (born 1974), Filipino swimmer
 * Gillian Tindall, British writer
 * Gillian Triggs, Australian lawyer
 * Gillian Vigman (born 1972), American comic actress
 * Gillian Wearing (born 1963), English artist
 * Gillian Weir (born 1941), English classical organist
 * Gillian Welch (born 1967), American singer
 * Gillian White (born 1975), American actress
 * Gillian Whitehead (born 1941), New Zealand composer
 * Gillian Wright (born 1960), English actress

Surname

 * Mike Gillian (born 1964), American basketball coach

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 Waifs
 * Gillian, a novel by Frank Yerby