Gilbert may refer to:
People and fictional characters
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Gilbert (given name)
Gilbert is a given name of Norman-French origin, itself from Germanic ''Gisilberht'' or ''Gisalberht''. Original spellings included ''Gislebert'', ''Guilbert'' and ''Gilebert''. The first element, ''Gil-'', comes from Germanic ''gīsil'', meaning ...
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Gilbert (surname)
Gilbert is a surname of English origin. It is derived from ''Giselbert'', an Anglo-Norman medieval personal name composed of the following Germanic elements: ''gisil'' ("pledge", "hostage", "noble youth") and ''berht'' ("bright", "famous"). This ...
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Places
Australia
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Gilbert River (Queensland)
The Gilbert River is located in Far North Queensland, Australia. When combined with the Einasleigh River, the river system is the largest river system in northern Australia.
Features and location
The Gilbert River rises below Conical Hill i ...
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Gilbert River (South Australia)
The Gilbert River is a river in the Mid North region of South Australia.
Course and features
The Gilbert River rises near Manoora, on the Barrier Highway and flows generally south, as a broad and shallow valley through mainly undulating count ...
Kiribati
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Gilbert Islands
The Gilbert Islands ( gil, Tungaru;Reilly Ridgell. ''Pacific Nations and Territories: The Islands of Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia.'' 3rd. Ed. Honolulu: Bess Press, 1995. p. 95. formerly Kingsmill or King's-Mill IslandsVery often, this n ...
, a chain of atolls and islands in the Pacific Ocean
United States
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Gilbert, Arizona, a town
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Gilbert, Arkansas
Gilbert is a town in Searcy County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 26 at the 2020 census, ranking it as the smallest municipality in the state and one of the smallest in the nation. Over the years, Gilbert has gained a reputation (a ...
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Gilbert, Florida, the airport of Winterhaven
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Gilbert, Iowa
Gilbert is a city in Story County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,211 at the time of the 2020 census. It is part of the Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a part of the larger Ames-Boone, Iowa Combined Statistical Area ...
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Gilbert, Louisiana
Gilbert is a village (Louisiana), village in Franklin Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 521 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census.
The Gilbert welcome sign describes the village as the home of U.S. Lieutenant general, L ...
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Gilbert, Michigan, and unincorporated community
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Gilbert, Minnesota
Gilbert is a city in St. Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 1,799 at the 2010 census. State Highway 37 (MN 37) and State Highway 135 (MN 135) are two of the main routes in Gilbert. Gilbert is part of the Quad Cities, w ...
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Gilbert, Nevada
Gilbert is a ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada, Esmeralda County, in the U.S. state of Nevada.
History
A post office was established at Gilbert in 1925, and remained in operation until 1942. The community was named after the brothers Gilbert ...
, ghost town
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Gilbert, Ohio, an unincorporated community
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Gilbert, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
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Gilbert, South Carolina
Gilbert is a town in Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 569 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
The David Jefferson Griffith House and Music Hall ...
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Gilbert, West Virginia
Gilbert is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States, along the Guyandotte River. The population was 450 at the 2010 census. Gilbert was incorporated in 1918 and named for Gilbert Creek, which derives its name from the name of an earl ...
, a town
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Gilbert, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
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Mount Gilbert (disambiguation) Mount Gilbert can refer to:
* Mount Gilbert (Alaska) in Alaska, USA
* Mount Gilbert (Chugach Mountains) in Alaska, USA
* Mount Gilbert (Antarctica)
* Mount Gilbert (California) in California, USA
* Mount Gilbert (Nevada) in Nevada, USA
* Mount G ...
, various mountains
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Gilbert River (Oregon)
The Gilbert River is a tributary of the Multnomah Channel on Sauvie Island in the U.S. state of Oregon. About long, it flows from near the south end of the island into Sturgeon Lake (Oregon), Sturgeon Lake and then north from the lake into the ch ...
Outer space
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Gilbert (lunar crater)
Gilbert is a large lunar impact crater that lies near the eastern limb of the Moon. Due to its location this feature appears foreshortened when viewed from the Earth, limiting the amount of detail that can be observed. The crater lies to the nort ...
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Gilbert (Martian crater) Gilbert may refer to:
People and fictional characters
*Gilbert (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
*Gilbert (surname), including a list of people
Places Australia
* Gilbert River (Queensland)
* Gilbert River (South ...
Arts and entertainment
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Gilbert Collection, an art collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum
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Gilbert (band), a name used by English composer and musician Matthew Gilbert Linley
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''Gilbert'' (film), a documentary on Gilbert Gottfried
Education
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Gilbert Academy
Gilbert Academy was a premier preparatory school for African American high school students in New Orleans, Louisiana. Begun in 1863 in New Orleans as a home for colored children orphaned by the American Civil War, the home moved to Baldwin, Louis ...
, a defunct private preparatory school for African Americans in Louisiana
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Gilbert School
The Gilbert School is a privately endowed secondary school that serves as the public high school for the towns of Winchester and Hartland, Connecticut and the public middle school for Winchester. The school was founded in 1895 as the result of ...
, a privately endowed secondary school that serves as the public high school for Winchester, Connecticut
Ships
* , a survey ship of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
* , a fisheries research ship of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and (as NOAAS ''Charles H. Gilbert'') the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Other uses
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A. C. Gilbert Company
The A. C. Gilbert Company was an American toy company, once one of the largest in the world. Gilbert originated the Erector Set, which is a construction toy similar to Meccano in the rest of the world, and made chemistry sets, microscope kits, ...
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Gilbert (unit), a CGS unit of magnetomotive force
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Gilbert Building (disambiguation), several buildings on the American National Register of Historic Places
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Gilbert Cell, a transistor circuit used in communication electronics
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Gilbert Hill, a monolith column of black basalt rock in Andheri, India
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Gilbert House (disambiguation) Gilbert House may refer to:
;in the Falkland Islands
* Gilbert House (Falkland Islands), the premises of the Legislative Council of the Falkland Islands, in Stanley
in the United States (by state then city)
*Gilbert House, a Los Angeles Historic- ...
, various buildings
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Gilbert Model
The Gilbert model was developed by Dennis Gilbert as a means of a more effective way of classifying people in a given society into social classes.
Influences
Karl Marx believed that social class is determined by ownership (or non-ownership) of ...
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Gilbert Rugby
Gilbert Rugby is a sports equipment manufacturing brand, specialising in rugby union and netball. The company is mostly known for its rugby union balls, having been official supplier for every World Cup since 1995.
History
The company was establi ...
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Gilbert's syndrome
Gilbert syndrome (GS) is a syndrome in which the liver of affected individuals processes bilirubin more slowly than the majority. Many people never have symptoms. Occasionally jaundice (a slight yellowish color of the skin or whites of the eyes) ...
, a benign medical condition that may cause mild jaundice
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Gilbert (typeface), a typeface created in honor of artist Gilbert Baker
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Hurricane Gilbert
Hurricane Gilbert was the second most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Atlantic basin in terms of barometric pressure, only behind Hurricane Wilma in 2005. An extremely powerful tropical cyclone that formed during the 1988 Atlantic hurr ...
, a 1988 Caribbean hurricane
See also
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Gilberts (disambiguation)
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Fitzgilbert, including a list of people with the name
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Gilberto
Gilberto is the Iberian and Italian version of the originally Norman-French given name ''Gilbert'', used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages. In Galician, it's spelled Xilberto or Xilberte. ''Gilbert'' is ultimately derived from the Germ ...
, a similar name
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