Jill is an English feminine given name, a short form of the name
Jillian
Jillian is both a feminine given name and a surname. A spelling variant of Gillian, it originates as a feminine form of the given name Julian (given name), Julian, Julio (given name), Julio, Julius (name), Julius, and Julien (given name), Julien. ...
(
Gillian), which in turn originates as a
Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English ...
variant of
Juliana
Juliana (variants Julianna, Giuliana, Iuliana, Yuliana, etc) is a feminine given name which is the feminine version of the Roman name Julianus.
Juliana or Giuliana was the name of a number of early saints, notably Saint Julian the Hospitaller, wh ...
, the feminine form of the name
Julian
Julian may refer to:
People
* Julian (emperor) (331–363), Roman emperor from 361 to 363
* Julian (Rome), referring to the Roman gens Julia, with imperial dynasty offshoots
* Saint Julian (disambiguation), several Christian saints
* Julian (give ...
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People with the given name
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Jill Astbury, Australian researcher into violence against women
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Jill Balcon
Jill Angela Henriette Balcon (3 January 192518 July 2009) was a British actress. She was known for her work in film, television, radio and on stage. She made her film debut in ''Nicholas Nickleby'' (1947). She was the second wife of poet Cecil ...
(1925–2009), British actress
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Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, American biostatistician and data scientist
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Jill Becker
Jill B. Becker is an American psychological researcher, studying sex differences in addiction using preclinical models. Becker is the Biopsychology Area Chair and the Patricia Y. Gurin Professor of Psychology at University of Michigan..She has adv ...
, American psychological researcher
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Jill Biden
Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden (born June 3, 1951) is an American educator and the current first lady of the United States since 2021, as the wife of President Joe Biden. She was the second lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017 when her hus ...
(born 1951), American educator and the First Lady of the United States
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Jill E. Brown (born 1950), African American aviator
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Jill Carroll (born 1977), American journalist
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Jill Clayburgh
Jill Clayburgh (April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010) was an American actress known for her work in theater, television, and cinema. She received the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Ac ...
(1944–2010), American actress
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Jill Costello (1987–2010), American athlete and lung cancer activist
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Jill Craigie (1911–1999), British film director and writer
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Jill Craybas
Jill N. Craybas (born July 4, 1974) is an American former professional tennis player.
From the 2000 US Open to the 2011 US Open, Craybas competed in 45 consecutive Grand Slam main draws; her best result coming in the 2005 Wimbledon Championships ...
(born 1974), American tennis player
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Jill Dando (1961–1999), British television presenter
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Jill Dickman
Jill Dickman is an American businesswoman and politician. She serves as a Republican member of the Nevada Assembly and represented Assembly District 31.
Early life
Jill Dickman was born in Hancock, Michigan. Jill's grandparents emigrated from Ru ...
, Republican member of the Nevada Assembly
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Jill Duggar (born 1991), reality TV personality
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Jill Fisch, American professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (also known as Penn Law or Penn Carey Law) is the law school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is among the most selective and olde ...
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Jill Frappier
Jill Frappier (born October 7, 1944) is a British-Canadian voice actress.
Frappier was born in Lord Louis Mountbatten's stately home, Broadlands, in Romsey, England. She moved to Canada in 1967 to work as a British hostess at the British pavil ...
(born 1944), British voice actress
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Jill Gascoine
Jill Viola Gascoine (11 April 1937 – 28 April 2020) was an English actress and novelist. She portrayed Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes in the 1980s television series '' The Gentle Touch'' and its spin-off series '' C.A.T.S. Eyes''. In the ...
(1937−2020), English actress and novelist
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Jill Gibbon
Jill Gibbon is a British artist, best known for sketching people in the arms trade while working undercover at arms fairs. She is a senior lecturer in graphic arts at Leeds Beckett University.
Gibbon earned a bachelor's degree from Leeds Polytec ...
, British artist
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Jill Green
Jill Green is an American dance educator and scholar who originated the Social Somatic Theory. Green served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was co-editor of '' Dance Research''.
Biography
Green received a M ...
, American dance educator and scholar
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Jill Goodacre
Jill Goodacre Connick (born March 29, 1964) is an American actress and former model. She was one of Victoria's Secret's main models in the 1980s and early 1990s. She is married to singer Harry Connick Jr.
Career Victoria's Secret
Goodacre was a ...
(born 1964), American model and actress
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Jill Harris
Jill Harris is an American voice actress. She has been voice acting professionally since 2015 and received her first lead role with Naho Takamiya in ''Orange''. Some of her other lead roles include Aura Bella Flora in ''Overlord
An overlord ...
, American voice actress
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Jill Hennessy
Jillian Noel Hennessy (born November 25, 1968) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is most known for her roles on the American television series ''Law & Order'', on which she played prosecutor Claire Kincaid for three seasons, and ''Crossing ...
(born 1968), Canadian actress and musician
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Jill Ireland
Jill Dorothy Ireland (24 April 1936 – 18 May 1990) was an English actress and singer. She appeared in 16 films with her second husband, Charles Bronson, and was additionally involved in two other of Bronson's films as a producer.
Life and ca ...
(1936–1990), British actress
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Jill Johnson
Jill Anna Maria Johnson (born 24 May 1973) is a Swedish country and pop singer, songwriter and TV-host. She performed in the Melodifestivalen 1998 contest, winning with the song "Kärleken är" ("Love Is"), and represented Sweden at the Eurovis ...
(born 1973), Swedish singer
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Jill Knight
Joan Christabel Jill Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree, (; 9 July 1923 – 6 April 2022) was a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1966 to 1997. ...
(1923–2022), British politician
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Jill Koshiol, American cancer epidemiologist
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Jill Martin (1938–2016), English musical theatre actress
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Jill Mellick, Jungian-oriented clinical psychologist
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Jill Morris
Jill Morris (born 14 August 1967) is a British diplomat who was the British Ambassador to Italy and non-resident British Ambassador to San Marino, succeeding Christopher Prentice. She is the first female to have held this post.
Early life
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(born 1967), British diplomat
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Jill Murphy (1949–2021), English writer and illustrator
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Jill P. Carter (born 1964), American politician
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Jill Scott Jill Scott may refer to:
* Jill Scott (singer) (born 1972), American soul singer and songwriter.
* Jill Scott (racing driver) (1902–1974), English racing driver
* Jill Scott (media artist) (born 1952), Australian media artist
* Jill Scott (footba ...
(born 1972), American soul singer
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Jill St. John
Jill St. John (born Jill Arlyn Oppenheim; August 19, 1940) is a retired American actress. She may be best known for playing Tiffany Case, the first American Bond girl of the 007 franchise, in '' Diamonds Are Forever''. Additional performances ...
(born 1940), American actress
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Jill Talley
Jill Talley (born December 19, 1962) is an American actress and comedian. She is a main cast member on the animated series ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', in which she voices Karen Plankton. Her other voice roles include Sarah Dubois on Adult Swim's ...
(born 1962), American voice actress
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Jill Vidal
Jill Vidal () often referred to as Wei Si or simply as Jill, is a Hong Kong-based female urban pop singer. Vidal is of Korean and Filipino ethnicity with British nationality.
Her twin sister, Janice Vidal, is also a singer in Hong Kong.
Car ...
, Hong Kong singer
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Jill Wagner (born 1979), American actress
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Jill Paton Walsh
Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford, (née Bliss; 29 April 1937 – 18 October 2020), known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker Prize-nominated n ...
(1937–2020), English novelist and children's writer
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Jill Zarin
''The Real Housewives of New York City'' (abbreviated ''RHONY'') is an American reality television series that premiered on Bravo on March 4, 2008. Developed as the second installment of ''The Real Housewives'' franchise, it has aired thirteen ...
, American television personality
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Jill Zimmerman (born 1959), computer scientist and professor at Goucher College
Fictional characters
* Jill, a character in the nursery rhyme "
Jack and Jill"
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Jill Foster Abbott, a character on the soap opera ''The Young and the Restless''
* Jill Andersen, Riley's mother during the events of Disney Pixar's ''
Inside Out''. Of note is that she is not named in the film itself, but rather in supplementary material.
* Genocide Jill, a serial killer and the alternate personality of
Toko Fukawa
is a fictional character introduced in the 2010 visual novel '' Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc'' by Spike Chunsoft. A world-successful romance novelist, Toko is chosen to enroll into Hope's Peak Academy as the "Ultimate Prodigy". However, whe ...
from the ''
Danganronpa
is a Japanese video game franchise created by Kazutaka Kodaka and developed and owned by Spike Chunsoft (formerly Spike). The series primarily surrounds various groups of apparent high school students who are forced into murdering each oth ...
'' series
* Jillian "Jill" Mastrano Dragomir, a character from Richelle Mead's
''Bloodlines'' (book series)
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Jill Masterson, from
Goldfinger
* Jill Pembroke, a character in the American sitcom television series ''
Charles in Charge
''Charles in Charge'' is an American sitcom television series that premiered on October 3, 1984, on CBS. The series was a production of Al Burton Productions and Scholastic Productions in association with Universal Television and starred Scot ...
''
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Jill Pole, a main character in C.S. Lewis' ''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair''
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Jill Valentine
Jill Valentine is a character in ''Resident Evil'' (''Biohazard'' in Japan), a survival horror video game series created by Japanese company Capcom. She was introduced as one of two player characters in the original ''Resident Evil'' (1996). ...
, a character from the ''Resident Evil'' video games series
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Jill, a character in Katharine Kerr's ''Deverry Cycle'' book series
Jill as middle name
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Amy-Jill Levine (born 1956), feminist theology professor
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J. Jill Suitor, sociology professor
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Suzanne Jill Levine (born 1946), American poet and translator
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