# 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 Adón (born 1971), Spanish writer and translator
* 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 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 Barrios (1889–1974), Uruguayan poet
* 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'