Lillian (given name)

Lillian, also spelt Lilian, Lilliann, or Lilliane, is a female given name. Its origin is the Latin word Lilium (lily).

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 (1916–2002), wife of King Leopold III of Belgium
 * Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (1915–2013), wife of Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland of Sweden
 * Lillian B. Allen (1904-1994), Canadian painter
 * Lillian Allen (born 1951), Canadian dub poet, musician, and writer
 * Lillian Alling, walked from New York state to the Bering Strait in the 1920s
 * Lilian Bennett (1922–2013), British businesswoman
 * Lilian Calmejane (born 1992), French cyclist
 * Lillian Chrystall (1926–2022), New Zealand architect
 * Lilian Constantini (1902–1982), born Liliane Chapiro-Volpert, French actress
 * Lillian Copeland (1904–1964), American Olympic discus champion; set world records in discus, javelin, and shot put
 * Lillian Crombie (1958–2024), Australian actress and dancer
 * Lilian Dikmans (born 1985), Australian model, Muay Thai fighter
 * Lillian Disney (1899–1997), widow of Walt Disney
 * Lilian Edirisinghe (1922-1993), Sri Lankan Sinhala actress
 * Lillian Elidah, Zambian chef
 * Lilian Fowler (1886–1954), Australian politician
 * Lilian Garcia (born 1966), American singer and ring announcer
 * Lillian Gish (1893–1993), American actress
 * Lillian Greene-Chamberlain (born 1941), American sprinter
 * Lilian Greenwood (born 1966), British politician
 * Lilian Greuze (1890–1950), French model
 * Lilian Helder (born 1973), Dutch politician
 * Lillian Hellman (1905–1984), American playwright
 * Lillian Herlein (1895–1971), American actress and singer
 * Lillian Hoban (1925–1998), American author
 * Lilian Laslandes (born 1971), French footballer
 * Lillian Lawrence (1868–1926), American theatre and silent film actress
 * Lilian Lee (born 1959), Chinese author
 * Lilian Mercedes Letona (1954–1983), Salvadoran guerrilla and revolutionary
 * Lilian Leveridge (1879–1953), teacher, writer
 * Lillian Metge née Grubb (1871–1954), Anglo-Irish suffragette and women's rights campaigner
 * Lilian Moore (1909–2004), American author of children's books, teacher and poet
 * Lillian Nakate (born 1978), Ugandan civil engineer and politician
 * Lilian Ngoyi (1911-1980), South African anti-apartheid activist
 * Lillian Offitt (1938–2020), American blues and R&B singer
 * Lillian Palmer (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Lillian Hoxie Picken (1852–1913), American educator and textbook compiler
 * Lilian Prunet (born 1978), French ice hockey player
 * Lillian Pulitzer Rousseau (1931–2013), American fashion designer
 * Lillian Randolph (1898–1980), American actress and singer
 * Lilian Rolfe (1914–1945), Allied secret agent in World War II
 * Lillian Smith (author) (1897–1966), American author
 * Lillian Carpenter Streeter (1854-1935), American social reformer, clubwoman, author
 * Lilian Thuram (born 1972), French footballer
 * Lilian Uchtenhagen (1928–2016), Swiss economist and politician
 * Lillian Vickers-Smith (1896–1971), Florida sports editor
 * Lilian Virgin (born 1939), Swedish politician
 * Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer (1892–1986), American artist, architect, and women's rights activist
 * Lillian Wald (1867–1940), founder of American community nursing
 * Lillian Walker (1887–1975), American actress
 * Lilian Wells (1911-2001), Australian Congregational and Uniting Church of Australia church leader
 * Lillian Wheeler (1880–1905), Australian actress
 * Lillian Worth (1884–1952), American actress
 * Lillian Yarbo (1905–1996), American actress, dancer and singer

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 Lilian, 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