Gillian

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Gillian (variant Jillian) is an English feminine given name, frequently shortened to Gill. It originates as a feminine form of the name Julian. It is also in use as a surname.

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Gillian Alexy a(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 Attard (born 1983), Maltese actress

Gillian Avery (born 1926), British children’s novelist and literary historian

Gillian Ayres (born 1930), English painter

Gillian Bailey (born 1955), British academic and former actress

Gillian Barge (1940-2003), English stage, television and film 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) (circa 1956-2003), Canadian humanitarian

Gillian Clark (born 1961), former 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), retired English football player

Gillian Cowley (born 1955), Zimbabwean field hockey player

Gillian Cross (born 1945), English children's writer

Gillian Elisa (born 1953), Welsh actress

Gillian Ferrari (born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player

Gillian Findlay, Canadian television journalist

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), former English badminton player

Gillian Gowers (born 1964), English badminton player

Gillian Guess (born 1955), Canadian criminal

Gillian Hills (born 1944), film actress

Gillian Horovitz (born 1955), English long-distance runner

Gillian Howie, English philosopher

Gillian Iliana Waters (born 1975), African-American actress

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 King, British paleontologist

Gillian Knight (born 1934), English singer and actor

Gillian Lowndes (born 1936), English ceramic sculptor

Gillian Lucky (born 1967), Trinidad and Tobago politician and lawyer

Gillian Lynne (born 1926), British ballerina, dancer, actor, theatre director, television director and choreographer

Gillian McConway, English cricketer

Gillian McCutcheon, British actress

Gillian McKeith (born 1959), Scottish non-fiction writer

Gillian Merron (born 1959), politician in the United Kingdom

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, British nurse

Gillian Porter (born 1965), Northern Irish television presenter

Gillian Pugh, British social welfare official

Gillian Rolton (born 1956), 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 (born 1928), 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 Whitehead (born 1941), New Zealand composer

Gillian Wright, British actress

Gillian Whitehead (born 1941), New Zealand composer

Surname

Mike Gillian (born 1964), American basketball coach

Fictional characters

Gillian B. Loeb, in the DC universe

Gillian Andrassy, in the soap opera All My Children

Gillian Seed, the protagonist in the cyberpunk video game Snatcher.

Gillian, in the novel Jill by Philip Larkin

References

Gillian Wikipedia

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