Gillian
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- Gillian AlexyGillian AlexyGillian Alexy is an Australian actress. She is best known for her role as Tayler Geddes on McLeod's Daughters.-Career:She graduated from the John Curtin College of the Arts in 2000, after doing specialist dance and theatre courses...
(born 1986), Australian actress - Gillian AllnuttGillian AllnuttGillian Allnutt is an English poet who now lives in Esh Winning, County Durham. Her books Nantucket and the Angel and Lintel were both shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2001/02 and 2002/03 she was a Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow, partly at Newcastle University...
(born 1949), English poet - Gillian AndersonGillian AndersonGillian Leigh Anderson is an American actress.After beginning her career in theatre, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on the American television series The X-Files. During the show's nine seasons, Anderson won Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen...
(born 1968), American actress - Gillian AppsGillian AppsGillian Mary Apps is a women's ice hockey player. She is the granddaughter of Hockey Hall of Fame member Syl Apps and the daughter of former National Hockey League player Syl Apps, Jr...
(born 1983), Canadian ice hockey player - Gillian ArmstrongGillian ArmstrongGillian May Armstrong is an award-winning Australian director of feature films and documentaries.- Career :Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Gillian Armstrong grew up in the eastern suburb of Mitcham. She graduated from Swinburne Technical College in 1968 where she studied theatrical costume design and...
(born 1950), Australian film director - Gillian AttardGillian AttardGillian Attard is a Maltese actress, singer and a famous personality on Maltese television.- Early years:She grew up in the southern town of Zejtun. Attard is able to sing in Maltese, English and Italian...
(born 1983), Maltese actress - Gillian AveryGillian AveryGillian Avery is a British children’s novelist and literary historian.She was born in Reigate on 30 September 1926 and attended Dunottar School there. She worked first as a journalist on the Surrey Mirror, then for Chambers Encyclopedia and Oxford University Press. In 1952 she married the...
(born 1926), British children’s novelist and literary historian - Gillian AyresGillian AyresGillian Ayres, CBE is an English painter.-Early life and career:Ayres was born on 3 February 1930 in Barnes, London, the youngest of three sisters. Ayres started school when she was six. Her parents, a prosperous couple, sent her to Ibstock, a progressive school in Roehampton run on Fröbel...
(born 1930), English painter - Gillian BaileyGillian BaileyGillian Bailey or Gilli Bush-Bailey is a British academic and former actress.She was mainly known as a child actor. Her best known role was Billie in Here Come the Double Deckers...
(born 1955), British academic and former actress - Gillian BargeGillian BargeGillian Barge was an English stage, television and film actress.She was born in Hastings, Sussex and she started acting at the age of 17, training at the Birmingham Theatre School....
(1940-2003), English stage, television and film actress - Gillian BaverstockGillian BaverstockGillian Baverstock, née Gillian Mary Pollock was a British author and elder daughter of English novelist Enid Blyton and her first husband, Hugh Pollock...
(1931-2007), British author - Gillian BaxterGillian BaxterGillian Baxter is a British writer of children's books. Her books were mainly about horses, although one book, The Knightsgate Players, was about acting.-Bibliography:*Horses and Heather *Jump to the Stars...
, British writer - Gillian BeerGillian BeerDame Gillian Beer, DBE , King Edward VII Professor of English Literature and President, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, is a British literary critic and academic.-Career:...
(born 1935), British literary critic - Gillian BevanGillian BevanGillian Bevan is an English actress, best known for her roles in British television shows and West End theatre....
(born 1950), British actress - Gillian BlakeGillian BlakeGillian Blake is a retired British actress who became well known in the early 1970s as Dora in Follyfoot.Blake studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and began her professional career in the late 1960s. She appeared in the 1969 film, Goodbye Mr. Chips and some other television...
(born 1949), British actress - Gillian Blakeney (born 1966), Australian dance musician
- Gillian Bonner (born 1966), American model
- Gillian BourasGillian BourasGillian Bouras is an expatriate Australian writer who has written several books, stories and articles, many of them dealing with her experiences as an Australian woman in Greece.-Life:...
(born 1945), Australian writer - Gillian BoxxGillian BoxxGillian Boxx won an Olympic gold medal as a catcher on the United States women's national softball team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, GA...
(born 1973), American Olympic medalist - Gillian BradshawGillian BradshawGillian Marucha Bradshaw is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who currently lives in Britain...
(born 1956), American writer - Gillian CarnegieGillian CarnegieGillian Carnegie is an English artist.Carnegie is a graduate of the Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art....
(born 1971), English artist - Gillian ChanGillian ChanGillian Chan is a Canadian children's author who lives in Dundas, Ontario.Gillian Chan is also the author of a short diary entry of Chin Mei-ling's during the Christmas week a year or so after the original diary ended for the Christmas treasury from the Dear Canada series, A Season for Miracles:...
(born 1954), Canadian children's author - Gillian ChungGillian ChungGillian Chung is a Hong Kong based singer and actress. She is a member of Cantopop group Twins, along with Charlene Choi.-Early life:...
(born 1981), Hong Kong singer - Gillian Clark (aid worker) (circa 1956-2003), Canadian humanitarian
- Gillian ClarkGillian Clark (badminton)Gillian Margaret Clark, MBE is a former English badminton player who specialized in doubles and currently a badminton television commentator.-Career:...
(born 1961), former English badminton player - Gillian ClarkeGillian ClarkeGillian Clarke is a Welsh poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator from Welsh.-Life:Clarke was born in Cardiff and brought up in Cardiff and Penarth, though for part of the Second World War she was in Pembrokeshire...
(born 1937), Welsh poet - Gillian CondyGillian CondyGillian Condy, born 5 December 1952 Nairobi, is a South African botanical artist. She has illustrated over 200 plates for , contributed to various other publications and 8 plates for . She has illustrated two books by Charles Craib, Geophytic Pelargoniums and Grass Aloes in the South African Veld...
(born 1952), South African botanical artist - Gillian ConoleyGillian ConoleyGillian Conoley is an American poet, the author of seven collections of poetry. Her work has been anthologized widely, most recently in Norton’s American Hybrid, Counterpath’s Postmodern Lyricisms, Mondadori’s Nuova Poesia Americana , and Best American Poetry...
(born 1955), American poet - Gillian CoultardGillian CoultardGillian Coultard is a retired English football player, and former England captain. She is England Women's most capped international, with 119 appearances; she is also the highest capped outfield England international ever, with only goalkeeper Peter Shilton gaining more with 125...
(born 1963), retired English football player - Gillian CowleyGillian CowleyGillian Cowley is a former hockey player from Zimbabwe, who was a member of the national team that won the golden medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow....
(born 1955), Zimbabwean field hockey player - Gillian CrossGillian CrossGillian Cross is a children's author. She won the 1990 Carnegie Medal for her book Wolf and the 1992 Whitbread Children's Book Award for her novel The Great Elephant Chase....
(born 1945), English children's writer - Gillian ElisaGillian ElisaGillian Elisa is an actress, singer, and comedian. Early in her career she was known by her full name of Gillian Elisa Thomas.-Career:...
(born 1953), Welsh actress - Gillian FerrariGillian FerrariGillian Ferrari is a Canadian women's ice hockey player. She was inducted into the Brampton Sports Hall of Fame in 2006. Her Mother is from Wales and her Father was born in Italy.-Playing career:...
(born 1980), Canadian ice hockey player - Gillian FindlayGillian FindlayGillian Findlay is a Canadian television journalist who has worked for the CBC and ABC. She studied history and literature at Simon Fraser University and she holds a degree in broadcast journalism from the British Columbia Institute of Technology....
, Canadian television journalist - Gillian FlynnGillian FlynnGillian Flynn is an American author and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. As of 2009, she has published two novels: Sharp Objects and Dark Places .-Biography:...
, American author and television critic - Gillian FoulgerGillian FoulgerGillian Foulger is a professor of geophysics at Durham University.She is one of the leading proponents of alternative models to the established deep mantle thermal plume hypothesis....
, English geologist - Gillian GalbraithGillian GalbraithGillian Galbraith is an Advocate-turned-author, a Scottish crime writer, whose protagonist, DS Alice Rice, is based in Edinburgh.- Biography :...
, Scottish crime writer - Gillian GilbertGillian GilbertGillian Lesley Gilbert is an English musician, keyboardist, guitarist and singer, best known as a member of New Order and a founding member of The Other Two.-Biography:...
(born 1961), British keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist - Gillian GilksGillian GilksGillian Gilks is a former badminton player from England who won numerous major titles in all three events between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s.Tall and slender in her badminton prime, with elegant, accurate strokes, Gilks is the most successful player ever in the...
(born 1950), former English badminton player - Gillian GowersGillian GowersGillian Gowers is a retired female badminton player from England.-Career:She won the bronze medal at the 1985 IBF World Championships in mixed doubles with Nigel Tier....
(born 1964), English badminton player - Gillian GuessGillian GuessGillian Guess is a Vancouver woman who was convicted of obstruction of justice after becoming romantically involved with a murder defendant while she was a juror in his trial...
(born 1955), Canadian criminal - Gillian HillsGillian HillsGillian Hills is an actress and singer. She rose to fame as a teenager in the 1960s in the British films Beat Girl and later, Blowup...
(born 1944), film actress - Gillian HorovitzGillian HorovitzGillian Pamela Horovitz is a retired female long-distance runner from England, who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the women's marathon. Born as Gillian Adams she is married to American screenwriter Israel Horovitz, author of more than 50 produced plays.-Achievements:-References:****...
(born 1955), English long-distance runner - Gillian Howie, English philosopher
- Gillian Iliana WatersGillian Iliana WatersGillian Iliana Waters is an African-American actress, also of Blackfoot Native American and Irish descent. She attended Howard University and excelled as an honors student. She majored in Human Communication and Dramatic Arts....
(born 1975), African-American actress - Gillian JacobsGillian JacobsGillian Jacobs is an American film, theatre and television actress, best known for her role as Britta Perry on the NBC comedy series Community.-Personal life:...
(born 1982), American stage and film actress - Gillian JonesGillian JonesGillian Jones is an Australian actress from Newcastle, New South Wales who is best known for appearances in Twelfth Night, Oscar and Lucinda, Last Train to Freo and the role of Di Paige in the television series Love My Way...
, Australian actress - Gillian JosephGillian JosephGillian Joseph is a British newscaster currently working for Sky News.-Journalism career:Joseph originally worked for the BBC in Manchester, as well as working as a radio reporter for Radio Merseyside. In 1998, she moved to London and presented Newsroom South East until it ended in 2001...
(born 1969), British newscaster - Gillian KearneyGillian KearneyGillian Louise Kearney is an English actress best known for playing Jessica Harrison in the long-running BBC television medical drama series Casualty, and her early role as Debbie McGrath in Channel 4's Liverpool-based soap opera Brookside and the spin-off mini-series Damon and Debbie.-Early...
(born 1972), English actress - Gillian KingGillian KingGillian King has worked in teaching and research in paleontology, as Assistant Curator at the Zoological Collections at Oxford University Museum, and a Fellow and Tutor as St Hilda's College, Oxford. She spent 15 years at Oxford and five years at the South African Museum in Cape Town, where she...
, British paleontologist - Gillian KnightGillian KnightGillian Knight is an English singer and actress, known for her performances in the contralto roles of the Savoy Operas. After six years starring in these roles with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, beginning in 1959, Knight began a grand opera career.Knight joined Sadler's Wells Opera in 1968...
(born 1934), English singer and actor - Gillian LowndesGillian LowndesGillian Lowndes was an English ceramics sculptor.Born in Cheshire in 1936, she spent much of her childhood in British India. She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts beginning in 1957 and spent a year at L’École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1960...
(born 1936), English ceramic sculptor - Gillian LuckyGillian LuckyGillian Lucky is a Trinidad and Tobago politician and lawyer. Since 2001 she has been United National Congress Member of Parliament for the Pointe-à-Pierre constituency...
(born 1967), Trinidad and Tobago politician and lawyer - Gillian LynneGillian LynneGillian Barbara Lynne , CBE, born , is a British ballerina, dancer, actor, theatre director, television director and choreographer noted for her popular theatre choreography associated with the iconic musicals Cats and the current longest running show in Broadway history, The Phantom of the Opera.-...
(born 1926), British ballerina, dancer, actor, theatre director , television director and choreographer - Gillian MaguireGillian MaguireGillian Maguire is an English actress and musician who is noted for her film roles alongside actors Rupert Grint and Stephen Fry. More recently, Maguire has begun touring with musician Kid Harpoon.-Biography:...
(born 1991), English actress and musician - Gillian McConwayGillian McConwayGillian McConway played 14 test matches for the England women's cricket team between 1984 and 1987.-References:...
, English cricketer - Gillian McCutcheonGillian McCutcheonGillian McCutcheon is a British based actress who has appeared in many programmes over the years. She has played three parts in the ITV Soap opera The Bill, alone....
, British actress - Gillian McIverGillian MciverGillian McIver, Canadian artist and writer born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK and raised in Vancouver is a writer, curator and film-maker.After studying history and philosophy, she moved to London where, in 1997, she set up an international underground art collective, known as Luna Nera in the abandoned...
, Canadian artist - Gillian McKeithGillian McKeithGillian McKeith is a Scottish nutritionist, television presenter, and writer. She is the former host in the UK of Channel 4's You Are What You Eat and Granada Television's Dr Gillian McKeith's Feel Fab Forever, and as of 2010 presents Eat Yourself Sexy on the W Network in Canada...
(born 1959), Scottish non-fiction writer - Gillian MerronGillian MerronGillian Joanna Merron was a British Labour Party politician, who was also the Member of Parliament for Lincoln from 1997 to 2010. From 2009 to 2010 she was Minister of State with responsibility for Public Health at the Department of Health.-Personal life:Merron was born in Ilford, Essex, and...
(born 1959), politician in the United Kingdom - Gillian MorganGillian MorganDame Gillian Morgan, DBE . Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Assembly Government from 1 May 2008.-Healthcare:Morgan's career has been mainly in healthcare, both in medicine and management and includes a period as Chief Executive of North and East Devon Health Authority...
(born 1953), British civil servant - Gillian MurphyGillian MurphyGillian Murphy is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre.Murphy was born in Wimbledon, England and took her first ballet class at the age of three in Belgium while her father was working overseas...
(born 1979), American dancer - Gillian NorrisGillian NorrisGillian Norris is an Irish dancer and model best known for her work in Lord of the Dance and Feet of Flames....
(born 1978), Irish dancer and model - Gillian O'SullivanGillian O'SullivanGillian O'Sullivan is an Irish race walker. She has held the world record in the 5000m walk since 2002 and won a silver medal at the world championship in 2003 over 20km. It was the first time since 1995 that an Irish athlete had won a World Championship medal...
(born 1976), Irish race walker - Gillian OliverGillian OliverDame Gillian Frances "Gill" Oliver, DBE, FRCN, is an expert in cancer nursing and palliative care and has been instrumental in developing cancer services, policy and strategy in the UK and beyond...
, British nurse - Gillian PorterGillian PorterGillian Porter is a Northern Irish television presenter. She is best known as a continuity announcer and newsreader at UTV, where she has appeared since 1993.-Broadcasting career:...
(born 1965), Northern Irish television presenter - Gillian PughGillian PughDame Gillian Pugh, DBE was Chief Executive of Coram Family, England’s oldest children’s charity, until her retirement on 25 April 2005, after eight years of service....
, British social welfare official - Gillian RogersonGillian Rogerson-Bibliography:*Happy Birthday Santa *The Teddy Bear Scare *The Smallest Hero *You Can't Eat a Princess Scholastic Children's Books - References :...
, English children's writer - Gillian RoltonGillian RoltonGillian Rolton is a former Olympics equestrian champion from Australia. She competed in two Olympic Games — 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics, Both times riding her horse, Peppermint Grove, named after Peppermint Grove in Western Australia.She was one of the eight flag-bearers...
(born 1956), Australian equestrian - Gillian RoseGillian RoseGillian Rose was a British scholar who worked in the fields of philosophy and sociology. Notable facets of this social philosopher's work include criticism of neo-Kantianism and post-modernism, along with what has been described as "a forceful defense of Hegel's speculative thought."-Life and...
(1947-1995), British scholar - Gillian Rose (geographer)Gillian Rose (geographer)Gillian Rose is a British geographer and geographic author. As of May 2008, she is senior professor of culture at the Open University. She is best known for her 1993 book, Feminism & Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge.-Career:...
(born 1962), British geographer - Gillian RubinsteinGillian RubinsteinGillian Rubinstein is an English-born children's author and playwright. Born in Potten End, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, Rubinstein split her childhood between England and Nigeria, moving to Australia in 1973. As well as eight plays, numerous short stories and articles, she has written...
(born 1942), Australian children's author and playwright - Gillian RussellGillian RussellGillian Russell is a Jamaican athlete who specializes in the 100 metres hurdles. In her early career she won four gold medals at the World Junior Championships, which is a record.-Achievements:...
(born 1973), Jamaican athlete - Gillian SewellGillian SewellGillian Sewell is a former Irish Canadian field hockey player who earned 36 international caps for the Canada during her career....
(born 1972), Canadian field hockey player - Gillian SheenGillian SheenGillian Sheen is a British fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition. She won a gold medal in the women's individual foil event at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. She also competed at the 1952 and 1960 Summer Olympics....
(born 1928), British fencer - Gillian Shephard, Baroness Shephard of Northwold (born 1940), British Conservative politician
- Gillian SlovoGillian SlovoGillian Slovo is a South African born novelist, playwright and memoirist.Her novels were at first predominantly of the crime and thriller genres, including a series featuring the detective Kate Baeier but she has since written more literary fiction...
(born 1952), South African novelist, playwright and memoirist - Gillian SmallGillian SmallDr. Gillian Small is the current Vice Chancellor for Research at the City University of New York. She joined CUNY in 2001. Dr. Small is also a tenured full professor of Biology at City College of CUNY.Dr...
, American biologist - Gillian SmithGillian SmithGillian Anne Smith is an English cricketer and former member of the England women's cricket team. She has the lowest Bowling average in Women's One Day International cricket.-External links:*...
(born 1965), English cricketer - Gillian SorensenGillian SorensenGillian Martin Sorensen is a Senior Advisor at the United Nations Foundation, and is a national advocate on matters related to the United Nations and the United States-United Nations relationship, addressing audiences as diverse as Rotary International and the United States Air Force Academy;...
, Senior Advisor at the United Nations Foundation - Gillian SpencerGillian SpencerGillian Spencer is an American soap opera actress and writer.She has had roles on soaps such as The Edge of Night, The Secret Storm, Guiding Light, As the World Turns and on One Life to Live as the original Victoria Lord/Niki Smith 1968-1970.Spencer appeared in the 1968 feature comedy What's So...
(born 1939), American soap opera actress and writer - Gillian StroudleyGillian Stroudley-Life and work:Gillian Stroudley was born Gillian Thain in Epsom, Surrey in 1925. She studied painting and wood engraving at St. Martin's School of Art between 1945-1951 under the supervision of Gertrude Hermes and Clifford Webb. After graduating, she worked as an art teacher for the Inner London...
(1925-1992), English painter and printmaker - Gillian TaylforthGillian TaylforthGillian Taylforth is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Kathy Mitchell on the BBC soap opera, EastEnders and as Jackie Pascoe-Webb on ITV's Footballers Wives , but more recently as Sgt. Nikki Wright in ITV's The Bill...
(born 1955), English actress - Gillian Akiko ThomsonGillian Akiko ThomsonGillian Akiko Thomson is a Filipina television host, journalist and retired swimmer. She is the youngest of three children born to a white American father, Marshall Thomson, and a Japanese mother from Hiroshima, Hiroko Nakamura. Her older siblings are Julia and Joshua...
(born 1974), Filipino swimmer - Gillian TindallGillian TindallGillian Tindall is a British writer. Among her better-known works are City of Gold: Biography of Bombay and Celestine: Voices from a French Village...
, British writer - Gillian TriggsGillian TriggsProfessor Gillian Triggs PhD was the Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law from July 2005 to September 2007. Before taking up her appointment, she was the Director of the Institute for Comparative and International Law at the University of Melbourne where she held a...
, British lawyer - Gillian VigmanGillian VigmanGillian Vigman is an American comic actress. Vigman is most notable for her membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv. She also starred in the ABC comedy, Sons & Daughters. Vigman plays a supporting role on The Defenders.-Biography:Vigman started her professional...
(born 1972), American comic actress - Gillian WearingGillian WearingGillian Wearing OBE RA is an English conceptual artist, one of the YBAs, and winner of the annual British fine arts award, The Turner Prize, in 1997. On 11 December 2007, Wearing was elected as lifetime member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London....
(born 1963), English artist - Gillian WeirGillian WeirDame Gillian Constance Weir DBE is a New Zealand organist.-Biography:Gillian Weir was a co-winner of the Auckland Star Piano Competition at 19, playing Mozart. A year later she won a scholarship of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in London...
(born 1941), English classical organist - Gillian WelchGillian WelchGillian Welch is an American singer-songwriter. She performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, Bluegrass, and Americana, is described by The New Yorker as "at once innovative and obliquely...
(born 1967), American singer - Gillian WhiteheadGillian WhiteheadDame Gillian Karawe Whitehead, DNZM is a New Zealand composer.She studied at the University of Auckland from 1959–62, and Victoria University of Wellington in 1963, graduating BMus Hons in 1964. She then studied composition at the University of Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe from...
(born 1941), New Zealand composer - Gillian WrightGillian WrightGillian Wright, is an English actress who is best known for portraying the role of Jean Slater on the long running BBC soap opera EastEnders...
, British actress - Gillian WhiteheadGillian WhiteheadDame Gillian Karawe Whitehead, DNZM is a New Zealand composer.She studied at the University of Auckland from 1959–62, and Victoria University of Wellington in 1963, graduating BMus Hons in 1964. She then studied composition at the University of Sydney with Peter Sculthorpe from...
(born 1993), New Zealand composer
Fictional characters
- Gillian B. Loeb, in the DC universe
- Gillian Andrassy, in the soap opera All My Children
In the arts
- Gillian, a novel by Frank YerbyFrank YerbyFrank Garvin Yerby was an African American historical novelist. He is best known as the first African American writer to become a millionaire from his pen, and to have a book purchased by a Hollywood studio for a film adaptation.-Early life:...
- "Gillian", a 1996 song on The Waifs (album)The Waifs (album)The Waifs is the self-titled debut album by Australian folk band The Waifs, first released in May 1996.-Release and re-release:The Waifs was originally released on Outside Music in 1996...
by the Australian folk group The Waifs
See also
- Gillian Settlement, ArkansasGillian Settlement, ArkansasGillian Settlement is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas, United States. It is located at and has an elevation of 1700 feet....
, an unincorporated community - Jillian (disambiguation)
- JillJillJill is a female given name, of Latin origin, meaning sweetheart or youthful. Used as a short form of the female given name Gillian, now it is often used as an independent name...