Gal or GAL may refer to:

People

Surname

* Gál, a Hungarian surname * Andreas Gal (born 1976), German programmer * Dani Gal (born 1975), Israeli video artist * Dean Gal (born 1995), Israeli footballer * Edward Gal (born 1970), Dutch dressage rider * Gedalia Gal (born 1933), Israeli farmer and former politician * Igor Gal (born 1983), Croatian footballer * Jenny Gal (born 1969), Dutch-Italian judoka * Lidia Gal, Israel chess master * Naomi Gal (born 1944), Israeli writer * Nora Gal (1912–1991), Soviet translator and literary critic * Riki Gal (born 1950), Israeli singer * Reuven Gal (born 1942), Israeli psychologist * Sandra Gal (born 1985), German LPGA golfer * Șandor Gal (born 1955), Romanian former ice hockey player * Sharon Gal (born 1974), Israeli journalist and politician *

Shmuel Gal Shmuel Gal (; born 1940) is a mathematician and professor of statistics at the University of Haifa in Israel. He devised the Gal's accurate tables method for the computer evaluation of elementary functions. With Zvi Yehudai he developed in 1993 ...

(born 1940), Israeli mathematician and professor * Susan Gal (born 1949), American academic *

Udi Gal Udi Gal (; born June 11, 1979) is an Israeli Olympic sailor, who is a sailing world championship three-time bronze medalist. Biography Gal is Jewish, and was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He started sailing at 8 years of age, and started racing at ...

(born 1979), Israeli Olympic sailor * Uziel Gal (1923–2002), German-born Israeli gun designer * Yehoshua Gal (born 1951), Israeli former footballer * Yoram Gal (born 1952), Israeli playwright and actor * Zehava Gal, Israeli operatic mezzo-soprano

Given name or nickname

* Gal I (Bishop of Clermont) (–), Christian saint * Gal Alberman (born 1983), Israeli footballer * Gal Arel (born 1989), Israeli footballer * Gal Barel (born 1990), Israeli footballer * Gal Cohen (born 1982), Israeli footballer * Gal Cohen Groumi (born 2002), Israeli Olympic swimmer *

Gal Costa Gal Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos (born Maria da Graça Costa Penna Burgos; 26 September 1945 – 9 November 2022), known professionally as Gal Costa (), was a Brazilian singer of Música popular brasileira, popular music. Twelve-times Bra ...

(1945–2022), Brazilian pop singer *

Gal Fridman Gal Fridman (or Friedman, ; born September 16, 1975) is an Israeli windsurfer and Israel's first Olympic gold medalist. Fridman won a bronze medal in the Atlanta 1996 Summer Olympics, and a gold medal in the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics. He is ...

(born 1975), windsurfer and first Israeli to win an Olympic gold medal * Gal Gadot (born 1985), Israeli actress and model * Gal Genish (born 1991), Israeli footballer * Gal Hirsch (born 1964), Israeli general * Gal Koren (born 1992), Slovenian hockey player * Gal Mayo (born 1981), Israeli footballer * Gal Mekel (born 1988), Israeli National Basketball Association player * Gal Mesika (born 1988), Israeli American football and association football player * Gal Nevo (born 1987), Israeli swimmer * Gal Nir (born 1983), Israeli football goalkeeper * Gal Sapir (born 1990), Israeli footballer * Gal Sone (born 1985), Japanese competitive eater * Gal Shish (born 1989), Israeli footballer * Gal Uchovsky (born 1958), Israeli screenwriter and producer * Gal Weinstein (born 1970), Israeli artist * Gal Yekutiel (born 1981), Israeli judoka * Gal Zukerman (born 2003), Israeli Olympic kite foiler

Pseudonym or nom de guerre

* GAL (cartoonist) (born 1940), Belgian cartoonist * János Gálicz or "General Gal" (1890-1939), Austro-Hungarian brigade and division commander during the Spanish Civil War

Places

County Galway County Galway ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region, taking up the south of the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht. The county population was 276,451 at the 20 ...

, Ireland, Chapman code GAL * Gal, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality in Nakhchivan * Gal, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran *

Gali (town) Gali ( ka, გალი ; , ''Gal'') is a town in Abkhazia, Georgia (country), Georgia, 77 km southeast of Sukhumi. It is the center of Gali District, Abkhazia, Gali District and was in the United Nations security zone prior to the Russian vet ...

, in Abkhazia * Hal, Azerbaijan, a village in Qubadli

Politics and law

* GAL (paramilitary group), a 1980s Spanish anti-ETA group * Global administrative law * Great Autonomies and Freedom (Italian: '), an Italian parliamentary group * Guardian ''ad litem'', a type of legal guardian in the United States * Green-Alternative List, now Alliance 90/The Greens Hamburg, a German political party

Science

* ''Gal'' (newspaper), a trilingual newspaper published in Abkhazia *

Gal (unit) The gal (symbol: Gal), sometimes called galileo after Galileo Galilei, is a unit of acceleration typically used in precision gravimetry. BIPM ''SI brochure'', 8th ed. 2006Table 9: Non-SI units associated with the CGS and the CGS-Gaussian system ...

, a unit of acceleration *

Galactose Galactose (, ''wikt:galacto-, galacto-'' + ''wikt:-ose#Suffix 2, -ose'', ), sometimes abbreviated Gal, is a monosaccharide sugar that is about as sweetness, sweet as glucose, and about 65% as sweet as sucrose. It is an aldohexose and a C-4 epime ...

, a sugar * Galanin, a peptide encoded by the GAL gene * '' Galeandra'', an orchid genus * Galectin, an enzyme *

Gallon The gallon is a unit of volume in British imperial units and United States customary units. The imperial gallon (imp gal) is defined as , and is or was used in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, including Ireland, Canada, Australia ...

, a unit of capacity or volume

Technology

* .gal, a top-level Internet domain for Galicia, Spain * Generic array logic * Generalized Automation Language * Global Address List in groupware

Language

* Gal language * Galoli language (ISO code) * GAL (cuneiform), Sumerian cuneiform character

Other uses

* Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport (IATA code), airport in Galena, Alaska *

Epistle to the Galatians The Epistle to the Galatians is the ninth book of the New Testament. It is a letter from Paul the Apostle to a number of Early Christian communities in Galatia. Scholars have suggested that this is either the Galatia (Roman province), Roman pro ...

* ''Gal'' (1969 album), by Gal Costa * ''GAL'' (film), a 2006 Spanish film * ''Gal''-class submarine of the Israeli Navy * General Aircraft Limited, a British aircraft manufacturer * Global Aero Logistics, an American airline holding company * , a Japanese fashion style for young women *

Kogal In Culture of Japan, Japanese culture, refers to the members of the Gyaru subculture who are still in high school and who incorporate their School uniforms in Japan, school uniforms into their dress style. These high school girls are characte ...

, a newer Japanese fashion style for young women, also sometimes referred to as "gal" * Stadium Gal, a football stadium in Irun, Spain * Slang term for a

woman A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or Adolescence, adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functi ...

girl A girl is a young female human, usually a child or an adolescent. While the term ''girl'' has other meanings, including ''young woman'',Dictionary.com, "Girl"'' Retrieved January 2, 2008. '' daughter'' or '' girlfriend'' regardless of age ...