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 (1938–2025), British children's book 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 Forrester, psychologist and cognitive science researcher
• 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 (headteacher), retired Australian school principal
• Gillian Moore (born 1944), English chess player
• 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 Vogelsang-Eastwood (born 1950), Dutch textile historian
• 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

Arts, entertainment, and media

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 '