Gilad or Ghil'ad (Hebrew: ) is a masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:

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Gilad Atzmon Gilad Atzmon (, ; born 9 June 1963) is an Israeli-born British saxophonist, novelist, political activist, and writer. As a musician, he is best known as a saxophonist and bandleader. His instruments include the saxophone, accordion, clarinet ...

(born 1963), Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist *

Gilad Bloom Gilad Bloom (; born 1 March 1967) is a former professional tennis player from Israel. Bloom trained at the Israel Tennis Centers. His career-high rankings were World No. 61 in singles (in 1990) and World No. 62 in doubles (in 1992). Personal li ...

(born 1967), Israeli professional tennis player *

Gilad Bracha Gilad Bracha (Hebrew: גלעד ברכה) is a software engineer at F5, and formerly at Google, where he was on the Dart programming language team. He is creator of the Newspeak language, and co-author of the second and third editions of the Java ...

, American software engineer *

Gilad Erdan Gilad Menashe Erdan ( ; born 30 September 1970) is an Israeli politician and diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations from 2020 through 2024. Erdan previously served as Ambassador of Israel to the United ...

(born 1970), Israeli politician * Gilad Hesseg (born 1971), Israeli folk rock singer-songwriter and composer *

Gilad Hochman Gilad Hochman (; born 26 July 1982 in Herzliya) is a Berlin-based Israeli composer of contemporary classical music. Education Hochman was born to an Odessa native father and a Paris native mother and currently resides in Berlin, Germany. He began ...

(born 1982), Israeli classical music composer *

Gilad Janklowicz Gilad Janklowicz (; ; born July 27, 1954) is an Israeli-born fitness personality best known for the longest running fitness television series in the United States, ''Bodies in Motion'', and for his series ''Total Body Sculpt with Gilad''. Raise ...

(born 1954), fitness guru *

Gilad Kariv Gilad Kariv (; born 30 November 1973) is an Israeli attorney and a politician. He was the former CEO of the Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism and is currently a member of the Knesset for the Democrats and previously for the ...

(born 1973), Israeli attorney *

Gilad Karni Gilad Karni () is an Israeli violist who has played in the New York Philharmonic and is currently principal viola in the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich as well as a soloist and player in chamber ensembles. A founder member of the Huberman Quartet, w ...

, Israeli violist * Gilad Shaer, 16-year-old killed in the

2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers The 2014 Gush Etzion kidnapping and murder refers to the abduction and killing of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank during June 2014. The victims, Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaer, and Naftali Fraenkel, were Israeli students aged 16 and 19. On ...

Gilad Shalit Gilad Shalit (, ''Gilˁad Šaliṭ'' ; born 28 August 1986) is a former MIA soldier of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who, on 25 June 2006, was captured by Palestinian militants in a cross-border raid via tunnels near the Israeli border. Ham ...

(born 1986), Israeli soldier *

Ghil'ad Zuckermann Ghil'ad Zuckermann (, ; ) is an Israeli-born language revivalist and linguist who works in contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity. Zuckermann was awarded the Rubinlicht Prize (2023) "for his researc ...

(born 1971), Israeli-born linguist and revivalist

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Amos Gilad Amos Gilad (; January 23, 1941–December 2010) was an Israeli Olympic runner. When he competed in the Olympics, he was tall, and weighed . Running career Gilad won the Israeli 800 m national championships in 1961 (1:56.5) and 1962 (2:00.6). I ...

(1941–2010), Israeli Olympic runner *

Avri Gilad Avri Gilad (; born 21 November 1962) is an Israeli media personality. Avraham Kwastler (later "Avri Gilad") started his professional career in the mid-1980s as a host on Israel Defense Forces Radio. He has hosted many television game shows, incl ...

(born 1962), Israeli media personality *

Benjamin Gilad Benjamin Gilad is an author, consultant, and teacher in the field of competitive intelligence. He is a co-founder of the Fuld-Gilad-Herring Academy of Competitive Intelligence. He was educated in psychology and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. Af ...

, pioneer in the field of competitive Intelligence *

Yehuda Gilad (musician) Yehuda Gilad () is a professor of clarinet at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music and the Colburn School of Music. Education Born and raised in Kibbutz Gan Shmuel. His former teachers include Mitchell Lurie, Herber ...

, professor of clarinet at the Colburn School of music *

Yehuda Gilad (politician) Rabbi Yehuda Gilad (; born 30 August 1955) is an Israeli former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Meimad between 2002 and 2003. Biography Born in Brazil, Gilad's family emigrated to Israel when he was eight. He was certified ...

(born 1955), former Israeli politician *

Zrubavel Gilad Zrubavel Gilad (, also ; 9 December 1912 – 12 August 1988) was a Hebrew poet, editor and translator. Biography Gilad was born in 1912 in Bender, Bessarabia (then part of the Russian Empire and now in Moldova), and his family (Bessarabian J ...

(1912–1988), Hebrew poet, editor and translator

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