Jill
For other uses, see Jill (disambiguation).
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Gender | feminine |
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Region of origin | England |
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Jill is an English feminine given name, a short form of the name Jillian (Gillian), which in turn originates as a Middle English variant of Juliana, the feminine form of the name Julian.
People
- Jill Balcon (1925–2009), British actress
- Jill Biden, American educator and the Second Lady of the United States
- Jill Carroll, American journalist once held in Iraq
- Jill Clayburgh (1944-2010), American actress
- Jill Craigie (1911–1999), British film director and writer
- Jill Craybas, American tennis player
- Jill Dando (1961–1999), British television presenter, murdered in April 1999
- Jill Duggar (born in 1991), reality TV star
- Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress and musician
- Jill Johnson, Swedish country and schlager singer
- Joan Christabel "Jill" Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, British politician
- Jill Murphy, author of The Worst Witch series
- Jill P. Carter, American politician
- Jill Scott, American soul singer
- Jill St. John, American actress
- Jill Vidal, pop singer from Hong Kong
- Jill Wagner, American actress
- Jill Zarin, US reality TV series participant (The Real Housewives of New York City)
- Jill Costello, (1987-2010) American coxswain and lung cancer activist
Fictional characters
- Jill, a character in the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill"
- Jill Valentine, a character from the Resident Evil video games series
- Jill Pole, a main character in C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
- Jill Fenmore Atkinson, a character on the soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Jill, a character in Katherine Kerr' Deverry Cycle book series.
- Genocide Jill, a character and the alter ego of Touko Fukawa from the video game Dangan Ronpa