Pilar (given name)

Pilar is a feminine Spanish language given name; traditionally short for "Maria del Pilar." It may refer to:

• Pilar Arlando (born 1989), a Portuguese holder of the title of Miss World Singapore for 2009–2010
• Pilar Barbosa (1898–1997), a Puerto Rican educator, historian and political activist
• Pilar Bardem (born 1939), a Spanish film and television actress
• Pilar Barreiro (born 1955), a Spanish politician
• Pilar Barrios (1889–1974), an important poet of the black community of Uruguay
• Pilar Bastardés, a Spanish actress
• Pilar Bosley (born 1988), an American ice dancer
• Pilar del Castillo (born 1952), a Spanish Member of the European Parliament
• Pilar de Lusarreta (1914–1967), an Argentine author and critic
• Pilar Geijo (born 1984), an Argentine Marathon swimmer
• Pilar Hidalgo (born 1979), a Spanish female athlete
• Pilar Hidalgo-Lim (1893–1973), a Filipino educator and civic leader
• Pilar Homem de Melo (born 1963), a Portuguese singer-songwriter
• Pilar Lastra (born 1981), an American model
• Pilar López de Ayala (born 1978), a Spanish film actress
• Pilar López Júlvez (1912–2008), Spanish choreographer and ballerina
• Pilar Lorengar (1928–1996), a Spanish soprano
• Pilar Manjón (born 1958), president of the association for the victims of 11-M (11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings)
• Pilar Mateos (born 1942), a Spanish writer of Children's literature
• Pilar Mazzetti (born 1946), a Peruvian doctor who currently holds the title of Minister of the Interior
• Pilar Medina (born c. 1956), the first Spanish delegate to win the Miss International title in 1977
• Pilar Miró (1940–1997), an awarded Spanish screenwrite and film director
• Pilar Montenegro (born 1969), a Mexican Latin pop singer and actress
• Pilar Muñoz, a Spanish singer, member of the band Las Ketchup
• Pilar Nores de García (born 1949), an Argentine economist
• Pilar Pallete (born 1936), a former Peruvian actress and third wife of the American film star John Wayne
• Pilar Pellicer (born 1938), a Mexican film actress
• Pilar Rahola (born 1958), a Catalan Spanish journalist, writer and former politician and MP
• Pilar Ramírez, a Mexican synchronized swimmer
• Pilar Revuelta, a Spanish film set decorator and art director
• Pilar Roldán (born 1939), a former Mexican fencer
• Pilar Rubio (born 1978), a Spanish reporter and TV presenter
• Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente (born 1964), a Spanish astrophysicist working as a professor in University of Barcelona
• Pilar Seurat (1938–2001), a Filipina-American film and television actress

Fictional characters

• Pilar, from Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls (also the name of his boat and nickname for his wife)
• Pilar, from Paulo Coelho's novel By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
• Pilar Cortez, from the ABC television series Last Resort
• Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald, from the NBC/DirecTV soap opera Passions
• Pilar Ternera, from the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Pilar Zuazo, from the Showtime dark comedy series Weeds

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