Gale (disambiguation)

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The principal meaning of gale is a high wind. A gale is a measure of windspeed on the Beaufort scale.

Contents 1 Surname 2 Forename 3 Fictional characters 4 Places 5 Other 6 See also

[edit] Surname

• Anthony Gale, fourth commandant of the United States Marine Corps
• Bob Gale, motion picture screenwriter
• Brendon Gale, Australian rules footballer
• Daniel De Gale, leukemia patient
• David Gale, mathematician
• David Gale, actor
• Ernest Gale, British microbiologist
• George Gale:
  • George Alexander Gale, Chief Justice for Ontario, Canada
  • George Gale (congressman), from Maryland, 1789-91
  • George Gale (journalist)
  • George Washington Gale, American Presbyterian minister
• Grant O. Gale, Grinnell College physics professor
• Hannah Gale, Canadian politician
• Henry Gale (1874-1942), American astrophysicist and author
• John Gale (director), Filipino movie director
• John Gale (journalist) (1846 - 1929), editor and founder of the Queanbeyan Age
• John Gale (poker player)
• John Gale (theologian) (1680-1721), British Baptist theologian
• Joseph Gale, American pioneer
• Joseph H. Gale, American judge
• Lauren Gale, American basketball player
• Levin Gale, American politician
• Lorena Gale, Canadian actress
• Maura Gale, American voice actress
• Megan Gale, Australian model
• Melvyn Gale, cellist for the Electric Light Orchestra
• Nathan Gale, murderer
• Norman Gale, poet
• Patrick Gale, British author
• Paul Gale, martial arts instructor
• Philip Gale, computer prodigy
• Richard Gale (General Sir Richard Nelson Gale) (1896–1982), British soldier
• Richard Gale (Australian politician) (1834–1931), Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council
• Richard Pillsbury Gale, American politician
• Robert Alec Gale, English cricketer
• Robert Henry Otley Gale, mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia
• Roger Gale (born 1943), English politician
• Terry Gale, Australian golfer
• Theophilus Gale, 17th century English theologian
• Thomas Gale (1636?-1702), English classical scholar
• Tony Gale, English football player and coach
• Tristan Gale (born 1980), American athlete
• Walter Frederick Gale (1865–1945), Australian banker and astronomer
• Zona Gale, American writer

[edit] Forename

• Gale Gordon (1906-1995), American actor
• Gale Harold (born 1969), American actor
• Gale Ann Norton (born 1954), U.S. Secretary of the Interior
• Gale Sondergaard (1899-1985), American film actress
• Gale Storm (born 1922), pseudonym of American actress Josephine Owaissa Cottle
• Gale Pollock, acting U.S. Army Deputy Surgeon General

[edit] Fictional characters

• Cathy Gale, in the TV series The Avengers
• Dorothy Gale, a character in the early 1900s L. Frank Baum Oz series, beginning with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
• Henry Gale, Uncle Henry (Oz), Dorothy Gale's uncle
• Henry Gale (Ben Linus), character in the television series Lost
• Wayne Gale, in the movie Natural Born Killers

[edit] Places

• Gale, Wisconsin
• Gale, Illinois
• The Gale River in New Hampshire

[edit] Other

• Gale Messaging, a secure chat system
• The Life of David Gale, 2003 motion picture
• Myrica gale, a plant, also known as sweet gale
• Thomson Gale, a publisher of reference books and databases, part of Thomson Corporation
• Gale, a 2D/3D open-source parallel geodynamics code for long-term tectonics problems in orogenesis, rifting, and subduction
• HMNZS Gale (T04), a minesweeper of the Royal New Zealand Navy

[edit] See also

• Gail
• Gayle