List of Famous people named Gil
Gil Ofarim
Gil Doron Reichstadt Ofarim is a German singer, songwriter, and actor, also known as the lead singer of the bands Zoo Army and Acht.
Gil Birmingham
Gil Birmingham is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Billy Black in The Twilight Saga film series. He is known in television for his role as Chief Thomas Rainwater in Yellowstone and recurring roles as George Hunter in Banshee and Virgil White in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Gil Hill
Gilbert Roland Hill was an American politician, police officer and actor, who was the President of the Detroit City Council. He gained recognition for his role as Inspector Todd in the Beverly Hills Cop film series.
Gil Amelio
Gilbert Frank Amelio is an American technology executive. Amelio worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International, and also a former CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple Computer.
Gil Santos
Gilbert A. Santos was an American radio play-by-play announcer for the New England Patriots of the National Football League, and morning sports reporter for WBZ radio in Boston. He was an inductee of the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame.
Gil Bellows
Gil Bellows is a Canadian character actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for the roles of Tommy Williams in The Shawshank Redemption, Billy Thomas in the television series Ally McBeal, and as CIA agent Matt Callan in the television series The Agency. In 2016–2017, he was a regular cast member in the USA Network series Eyewitness.
Gil Cisneros
Gilbert Ray Cisneros Jr. is an American philanthropist and former politician who served as the U.S. Representative for California's 39th congressional district from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected to the House in 2018. He was defeated in his 2020 bid for reelection by former California State Assembly woman Young Kim, whom he had defeated in 2018.
Gil Gerard
Gil Gerard is an American actor, most notable for his role as Captain William "Buck" Rogers in the 1979–81 television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
Gil Scott-Heron
Gilbert Scott-Heron was an American soul and jazz poet, musician, and author, known primarily for his work as a spoken-word performer in the 1970s and 1980s. His collaborative efforts with musician Brian Jackson featured a musical fusion of jazz, blues, and soul, as well as lyrical content concerning social and political issues of the time, delivered in both rapping and melismatic vocal styles by Scott-Heron. His own term for himself was "bluesologist", which he defined as "a scientist who is concerned with the origin of the blues."
Gil Vicente
Gil Vicente, called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's greatest playwrights. Also noted as a lyric poet, Vicente worked in Spanish as much as he worked in Portuguese and is thus, with Juan del Encina, considered joint-father of Spanish drama.