Places

• Gil Island, one of several islands by that name
• Gil, Azerbaijan, places named Gil in Azerbaijan

People

• Gil, an abbreviated form of the name Gilbert.
• Gil (Hebrew: גיל — Gil, "joy" or "age"), common Israeli name
• Gil Allouche, Israeli, entrepreneur and writer of "entrepreneurship toolkit"
• Gil Casio, Filipino Marist
• Gil Evans, jazz pianist
• Gil Semple, the magician
• Gil Elvgren, pin-up artist
• Gil Gerard, American, actor and star of "Buck Rogers"
• Gil Hayes, professional wrestler
• Gil Heron, Jamaican soccer player
• Gil Hodges (d. 1972), former manager of the New York Mets
• Gil Kane, comic book artist
• Gil Meche, American, pitcher for the Kansas City Royals
• Gil Melândia, Brazilian singer
• Gil Ofarim, German pop singer
• Gil Perkins, Australian film and television actor
• Gilberto Ribeiro Gonçalves, (nick-named Gil), Brazilian footballer
• Gil Santos, American radio commentator for the New England Patriots
• Gil Schwartz, New York based jazz guitarist
• Gil Scott-Heron, American spoken word performer and rap pioneer
• Gil Semedo, Capverdean singer
• Gil Stein (archaeologist)
• Gil Stein (sports administrator)
• Gil from the 1985 arcade game The Tower of DruagaSurname
• Ariadna Gil, a Spanish Actress
• Gilberto Gil, singer and songwriter, Minister of Culture of Brazil
• Gus Gil (born 1939), Venezuelan baseball player
• Jesús Gil, Spanish politician and businessman (1933-2004)
• José Augusto Seco Machado Gil, Portuguese Psychiatrist (1953-1996)
• Nikki Gil, Filipina actress

Fiction

• Gil Grissom, character on American TV series CSI Las Vegas, played by actor William Petersen
• Gil Gunderson, a recurring character on "The Simpsons"
• Gil (Final Fantasy), the principal fictional currency in the Final Fantasy series
• In the fictional Star Trek universe, Gil is a Cardassian military rank.
• "Star" in the Quenya language (invented by J.R.R. Tolkien)
• Gil Chesterton, a supporting character on Frasier

Politics

• Gil, in the Israeli Knesset, is the Pensioners' Party.
• Grupo Independiente Liberal (GIL), a former Spanish political party

Other uses

• Computing:
• Generic Image Library, a generic programming library for image processing by Adobe Systems
• Global Interpreter Lock, in interpreter programs
• "Globalization, Internationalization, and Localization" (GiL) or (GIL), as used by The Localization Industry Standards Association
• Type of Music Al Jeel

See also

• Gill (disambiguation)
• Gilbert
• Gilberto