Gilly (disambiguation)

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Gilly is a municipality in Switzerland.

Gilly may also refer to:

Places

• Gilly, Belgium, a section of the town of Charleroi
  • Gilly (Charleroi Metro), an underground station
• Gilly, Kentucky, United States, an unincorporated community

People

Surname

• Adolfo Gilly (born 1928), Argentine-born Mexican author and professor of history and political science
• Charles Louis Gilly (1911-1970), American botanist
• David Gilly (1748–1808), German architect
• Dinh Gilly (1877–1940), French-Algerian operatic baritone and teacher
• Friedrich Gilly (1772– 1800), German architect, son of David Gilly

• Hermann Gilly (1895-?), German First World War flying ace and Second World War Luftwaffe officer

Given name

• Gilly Flaherty (born 1991), female English footballer
• Gilly Flower (1908-2001), English actress
• Gilly Lane (born 1985), American squash player
• Gilly or Gelli Meyrick (1556?-1601), Welsh supporter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and conspirator in Essex's rebellion
• Gilly Salmon (born 1949), English academic in the field of digital learning

Nickname

• Gilly Campbell (1908-1973), American Major League Baseball catcher
• Gilly Coman (1955-2010), English actress
• Adam Gilchrist (born 1971), former Australian cricketer
• Gilly Williams (1719–1805), English Receiver-General of Excise, wit and letter writer

Fictional characters

• the title character of The Great Gilly Hopkins, a 1978 children's novel (and upcoming film adaptation) by Katherine Paterson
• Gilly, a character in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novel series
• Geillis "Gilly" Ramsey, heroine of Thornyhold, a 1988 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart
• Gilly Roach, on the soap opera Hollyoaks
• Gilly (Saturday Night Live), a recurring character in the television series

See also

• Gillie, a Scots term for an attendant on a fishing or hunting expedition
• Gilley (disambiguation)