# 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, 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) (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, retired Australian school principal
* 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 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 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* "Gillian", a 1996 song on The Waifs (album) by the Australian folk group The Waifs
* Gillian, a novel by Frank Yerby