Gillian
Gillian is a female first name (often abbreviated as Gill or Jill) and occasionally a family name .
Origin and meaning
The female first name Gillian was created in the 17th century by differentiating it from the first name Julian , which was previously given to both genders in the English-speaking world.
Name bearers
- Gillian Alexy (* 1986), Australian actress
- Gillian Anderson (* 1968), American actress
- Gillian Armstrong (born 1950), Australian director
- Gillian Barge (1940-2003), English actress
- Gillian Bradshaw (* 1956), American writer
- Gillian Yan-tung Chung (* 1981), Chinese musician and actress
- Gillian Margaret Clark (* 1961), English badminton player
- Gillian Crichton (* around 1974), German singer
- Gillian Cross (* 1945), British children's author
- Gillian Dobb (1929–2001), American actress
- Gillian Gilbert (* 1961), British musician
- Gillian Murphy (* 1979), American ballet dancer
- Gillian O'Sullivan (* 1976), Irish walker
- Gillian Perrin (* 1950), English badminton player
- Gillian Rolton (1956-2017), Australian eventing rider
- Gillian Rose (1947–1995), British philosopher and sociologist
- Gillian Rubinstein (* 1942), English author
- Gillian Shephard (* 1940), British politician
- Gillian Slovo (* 1952), South African writer, journalist and film producer
- Gillian Tans (* 1970), Dutch entrepreneur
- Gillian Wearing (born 1963), British artist
- Gillian Welch (* 1967), American songwriter
family name
- Gunther Gillian (* 1969), Austrian actor
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patricia Hanks and Flavia Hodges, A concise dictionary of first names, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0198600941