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Jill is an English feminine given name, a short form of the nameJillian (Gillian), which in turn originates as a Middle English variant of Juliana, the feminine form of the name Julian.
People with the given name
- Jill Astbury, Australian researcher into violence against women
- Jill Balcon (1925–2009), British actress
- Jill Biden (born 1951), American educator and the former Second Lady of the United States
- Jill E. Brown (born 1950), African American aviator
- Jill Carroll (born 1977), American journalist
- Jill Clayburgh (1944–2010), American actress
- Jill Costello (1987–2010), American athlete and lung cancer activist
- Jill Craigie (1911–1999), British film director and writer
- Jill Craybas (born 1974), American tennis player
- Jill Dando (1961–1999), British television presenter
- Jill Dickman, Republican member of the Nevada Assembly
- Jill Duggar (born in 1991), reality TV personality
- Jill Fisch, American professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Jill Frappier, British voice actress
- Jill Gibbon, British artist
- Jill Green, American dance educator and scholar
- Jill Hennessy (born 1968), Canadian actress and musician
- Jill Ireland (1936–1990), British actress
- Jill Johnson (born 1973), Swedish singer
- Jill Knight (born 1924), British politician
- Jill Martin (1938–2016), English musical theatre actress
- Jill Murphy (born 1949), English writer and illustrator
- Jill P. Carter (born 1964), American politician
- Jill Scott (born 1972), American soul singer
- Jill St. John (born 1940), American actress
- Jill Talley (born 1962), American voice actress
- Jill Vidal, Hong Kong singer
- Jill Wagner (born 1979), American actress
- Jill Zarin, American television personality
- Jill Zimmerman, computer scientist and professor at Goucher College
Fictional characters
- Jill, a character in the nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill"
- Jillian "Jill" Mastrano Dragomir, a character from Richelle Mead's Bloodlines (book series)
- Jill Valentine, a character from the Resident Evil video games series
- Jill Pole, a main character in C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair
- Jill Foster Abbott, a character on the soap opera The Young and the Restless
- Jill, a character in Katharine Kerr's Deverry Cycle book series
- Genocide Jill, a serial killer and the alternate personality of Toko Fukawa from the Danganronpa series
Jill as middle name
- Amy-Jill Levine (born 1956), feminist theology professor
- J. Jill Suitor, sociology professor
- Suzanne Jill Levine (born 1946), American poet and translator