Gal

Gal, an alteration of girl, is a casual term for a woman.

Gal may also refer to:

People

Given name

• Gal Costa, Brazilian Bossa Nova singer
• Gal Fridman (b. 1975), windsurfer and first Israeli to win an Olympic gold medal

Surname

• Austrian composer and artist Bernhard Gál
• Jenny Gal, Dutch-Italian judoka
• Paul "Gal" Gallen, Australian rugby league footballer
• Udi Gal (born 1979), Israeli Olympic sailor

Other

• Gal (unit), short for Galileo Unit: one centimeter per second squared
• Gall Force, a 1980s Japanese anime
• Gallon
• Galactose, an organic compound
• Gali (town), aka Gal, a town in Abkhazia
• Gal, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality
• Hal, Azerbaijan, a village
• Gal class submarine of the Israeli Navy
• Gyaru (ギャル, gal^?), a Japanese fashion style for young women
• Kogal, a newer Japanese fashion style for young women, also sometimes referred to as "gal"
• the orchid genus Galeandra

GAL may refer to:

• Galanin, a peptide
• Gazi Anadolu Lisesi, a Turkish high school located at Ankara
• Gatwick Airport Limited
• General Aircraft Limited
• Generalized Automation Language
• Generic array logic
• Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, the standard work on Arabic literature by Carl Brockelmann.
• Get a life (idiom) (in internet slang)
• Global Address List in Microsoft Exchange
• Global administrative law
• Global Aero Logistics
• Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport (IATA airport code)
• Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación, a Spanish death squad active in the 1980s set up to fight ETA
• Grüne Alternative Liste, various organisations representing the German Green party at state or communal level, the most well-known being the Grün-Alternative Liste in Hamburg
• Guardian ad litem, see legal guardian