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 Arlando (born 1989), Portuguese holder of the title of Miss World Singapore for 2009–2010
 * Pilar Barbosa (1898–1997), Puerto Rican educator, historian and political activist
 * Pilar Bardem (1939–2021), Spanish film and television actress
 * Pilar Barreiro (born 1955), Spanish politician
 * Pilar Barrios (1889–1974), Uruguayan poet
 * Pilar Bastardés, Spanish actress
 * Pilar Bayer (born 1946), Spanish mathematician
 * Pilar Cabot (1940–2017), Catalan writer
 * Pilar Calveiro (born 1953), Argentine political scientist
 * Pilar Calvo (born 1963), Catalan politician
 * Pilar Campoy (born 1990), Argentine field hockey player
 * Pilar Cattaneo (born 2007), Argentine gymnast
 * Pilar De Biase (born 1996), Argentine field hockey player
 * Pilar de Borbón (1936–2020), Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz
 * Pilar del Castillo (born 1952), Spanish Member of the European Parliament
 * Pilar de Lusarreta (1914–1967), Argentine author and critic
 * Pilar Fuertes Ferragut (1962–2012), Spanish diplomat
 * Pilar Geijo (born 1984), Argentine Marathon swimmer
 * Pilar González i Duarte (born 1945), Spanish chemist
 * Pilar Hidalgo (born 1979), Spanish female athlete
 * Pilar Hidalgo-Lim (1893–1973), Filipino educator and civic leader
 * Pilar Homem de Melo (born 1963), Portuguese singer-songwriter
 * Pilar Khoury (born 1995), Lebanese footballer
 * Pilar López de Ayala (born 1978), Spanish film actress
 * Pilar López Júlvez (1912–2008), Spanish choreographer and ballerina
 * Pilar Lorengar (1928–1996), Spanish soprano
 * Pilar Manjón (born 1958), president of the association for the victims of 11-M (11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings)
 * Pilar Mateos (born 1942), Spanish writer of children's literature
 * Pilar Mazzetti (born 1946), Peruvian doctor who currently holds the title of Minister of the Interior
 * Pilar Medina (born c. 1956), first Spanish delegate to win the Miss International title in 1977
 * Pilar Miró (1940–1997), Spanish screenwriter and film director
 * Pilar Montenegro (born 1969), Mexican Latin pop singer and actress
 * Pilar Muñoz (1911–1980), Spanish actress of stage and film
 * Pilar Muñoz, Spanish singer, member of the band Las Ketchup
 * Pilar Nores de García (born 1949), Argentine economist
 * Pilar Nouvilas i Garrigolas (1854-1938), Spanish painter
 * Pilar Pallete (born 1936), Peruvian actress and third wife of the American film star John Wayne
 * Pilar Paz Pasamar (1932–2019), Spanish poet and writer
 * Pilar Pellicer (1938–2020), Mexican film actress
 * Pilar Prades (1928-1959), last Spanish woman to be executed by garrote
 * Pilar Rahola (born 1958), Spanish journalist, writer and former politician and MP
 * Pilar Ramírez (1964–2017), Mexican synchronized swimmer
 * Pilar Revuelta, Spanish film set decorator and art director
 * Pilar Rioja (born 1932), Mexican dancer
 * Pilar Roldán (born 1939), Mexican fencer
 * Pilar Romang (born 1992), Argentine field hockey player
 * Pilar Romero (born 1982), Argentine handball player
 * Pilar Rubio (born 1978), Spanish reporter and TV presenter
 * Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente (born 1964), Spanish astrophysicist working as a professor in University of Barcelona
 * Pilar Seurat (1938–2001), Filipina-American film and television actress
 * Pilar Vallugera (born 1967), Catalan politician
 * Pilar Zabala Aguirre (born 1951), Spanish researcher, writer, and professor
 * Pilar Zeta (born 1986), Argentine artist, graphic designer, and fashion designer

Male

 * Pilar García (brigadier general) (born 1896), Cuban Chief of National Police in 1958 and 1959

Fictional characters

 * Pilar, from Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (also the name of his boat and nickname for his wife)
 * 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'