From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gil, or GIL may refer to:

Places

• Gil Island, one of several islands by that name
• Gil, Azerbaijan, places named Gil in Azerbaijan

People

Given name

• Gil, an abbreviated form of the given name Gilbert or Gilligan
• Gil Amelio, technology executive and former CEO of Apple Inc.
• Gil Baiano, Brazilian footballer
• Gil Evans, jazz pianist
• Gil Elvgren, pin-up artist
• Gil Fronsdal, American Buddhist teacher
• Gil Gerard, American, actor and star of "Buck Rogers"
• Gil Hayes, professional wrestler
• Gil Heron, Jamaican soccer player
• Gil Hodges (d. 1972), former manager of the New York Mets
• Gil Kane, comic book artist
• Gil Meche, American, pitcher for the Kansas City Royals
• Gil Ofarim, German pop singer / band vocalist and former teen idol
• Gil Perkins, Australian film and television actor
• Gilberto Ribeiro Gonçalves, (nick-named Gil), Brazilian footballer
• Gil Santos, American radio commentator for the New England Patriots
• Gil Schwartz, business humorist and novelist
• Gil Scott-Heron, American spoken word performer and rap pioneer
• Gil Semedo, Capverdean singer
• Gil Stein (archaeologist)
• Gil Stein (sports administrator)

Surname

• Ariadna Gil, a Spanish Actress
• Armando Gil (born 1959), Dominican Republic comic book artist
• Gilberto Gil, singer and songwriter, former Minister of Culture of Brazil
• Gus Gil (born 1939), Venezuelan baseball player
• Jesús Gil, Spanish politician and businessman (1933-2004)
• Nikki Gil, Filipina actress
• Tomas Gil (born 1977), Venezuelan track and road cyclist

Fiction

• Gil Grissom, character on American TV series CSI Las Vegas, played by actor William Petersen
• A recurring character on the animated TV series The Simpsons, Gil Gunderson
• In the fictional Star Trek universe, Gil is a Cardassian military rank
• Gil Chesterton, a supporting character on the TV sitcom Frasier
• A character in the 1985 arcade game The Tower of Druaga, Gil
• Gil, a character in the manga Dragon Knights
• Gil, the currency of Final Fantasy games

Politics

• Gil (political party), in the Israeli Knesset, is the Pensioners' Party.
• Independent Liberal Group (Grupo Independiente Liberal in Spanish), a former Spanish political party

Other uses

• Computing:
  • Generic Image Library, a generic programming library for image processing by Adobe Systems
  • Global Interpreter Lock, in interpreter programs
• "Globalization, Internationalization, and Localization" (GiL) or (GIL), as used by The Localization Industry Standards Association

See also

• Gill (disambiguation)
• Gilbert
• Gilberto

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.