Gilbert may refer to:

People and fictional characters

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 ...

, including a list of people and fictional characters *

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 ...

, including a list of people

Places

Australia

* Gilbert River (Queensland) *

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 countr ...

Kiribati

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

Gilbert, Arizona Gilbert is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, located southeast of Phoenix within the city's metropolitan area. Incorporated on July 6, 1920, Gilbert was once known as the "Hay Shipping Capital of the World". It is the fifth-larg ...

, a town * Gilbert, Arkansas, a town * Gilbert, Florida, the airport of Winterhaven *

Gilbert, Iowa Gilbert is a city in Story County, Iowa, Story County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,211 at the time of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. It is part of the Ames, Iowa Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a part of the large ...

, a city *

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 ...

, a village * Gilbert, Michigan, and unincorporated community *

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 ...

, a city *

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 *

Gilbert, Ohio Gilbert is an unincorporated community in Muskingum County, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly ...

, an unincorporated community *

Gilbert, Pennsylvania Gilbert is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 459 in the 2000 census. The Pohopoco Creek Pohopoco Creek (locally known as Big Creek) is a tributary of the Lehigh River in Monroe and C ...

, an unincorporated community * Gilbert, South Carolina, a town * Gilbert, West Virginia, a town *

Gilbert, Wisconsin Gilbert is an unincorporated community located in the town of Bradley, Lincoln County, Wisconsin, United States. Gilbert is located at the junction of Wisconsin Highway 107 and County Highway S south-southeast of Tomahawk A tomahawk is a typ ...

, an unincorporated community *

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 *

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

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 ...

* Gilbert (Martian crater)

Arts and entertainment

Gilbert Collection The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection is a collection of ''objets d'art'' formed by the English-born businessman Sir Arthur Gilbert, who made most of his fortune in the property business in California. After initially becoming interested i ...

, an art collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum *

Gilbert (band) Gilbert is the performance name of Matthew Gilbert Linley, a London-based composer and musician. He is also the drummer in Engineers with Mark Peters and Ulrich Schnauss. Biography Linley grew up in Eltham, South-east London, England. He began ...

, a name used by English composer and musician Matthew Gilbert Linley * ''Gilbert'' (film), a documentary on Gilbert Gottfried

Education

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 *

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

* A. C. Gilbert Company, an American toy company *

Gilbert (unit) The gilbert (symbol: Gb) is an obsolete unit used in practical cgs and CGS-EMU systems to measure magnetomotive force. The unit is named for English physicist William Gilbert. Definition: *1 Gb = (1/4π) Bi-turn Conversion to the co ...

, a CGS unit of magnetomotive force *

Gilbert Building (disambiguation) Gilbert Building may refer to: * Gilbert Building (Beaumont, Texas) in Beaumont, Texas, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson County, Texas * Gilbert Building (Portland, Oregon), listed on the National Register of Historic ...

, several buildings on the American National Register of Historic Places * Gilbert Cell, a transistor circuit used in communication electronics *

Gilbert Hill Gilbert Hill is a monolith column of black basalt rock at Andheri, in Mumbai, India. The rock has a sheer vertical face and was formed when molten lava was squeezed out of the Earth's clefts during the Mesozoic Era about 66 million years ago. ...

, a monolith column of black basalt rock in Andheri, India * Gilbert House (disambiguation), various buildings *

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 t ...

, a social class model * Gilbert Rugby, an English sporting-goods manufacturer *

Gilbert Street, Adelaide Gilbert Street is a main street in the CBD of the centre of Adelaide, South Australia.Map
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, Australia * Gilbert's syndrome, a benign medical condition that may cause mild jaundice *

Gilbert (typeface) Gilbert is sans-serif typeface, a tribute font to honor the memory of Gilbert Baker, the creator of the LGBT Rainbow Flag. This colorful typeface was supposedly designed to "express diversity and inclusion", specially made for striking headline ...

, a typeface created in honor of artist Gilbert Baker * Hurricane Gilbert, a 1988 Caribbean hurricane