Gail
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People
Given name
Gail is a spelling variant of Gale, Gayle (etc.), all a short form of the biblical name Abigail. It has been used as either a masculine or a feminine name, Use of the spelling Gail was equally rare for masculine and feminine use, but feminine use became more popular during the 1930s to 1960s, as a consequence marginalizing masculine usage by about 1960.[1]
- Gail Boggs (born 1951), American actress
- Gail Borden (1801–1874), American inventor
- Gail Borden (figure skater) (1907–1991), American figure skater
- Gail Bruce (1923–1998), American football player
- Gail Collins (born 1945), American journalist
- Gail Cronauer (born 1948), American actress
- Gail Devers (born 1966), American athlete
- Gail Ann Dorsey (born 1962), American musician
- Gail Emms (born 1977), British badminton player
- Gail Fisher (1935–2000), American actress
- Gail Halvorsen (born 1920), American air force pilot
- Gail Jonson (born 1965), New Zealand swimmer
- Gail Kim (born 1976), Canadian wrestler
- Gail Carson Levine (born 1947), American writer
- Gayle Liuzza (born 1959), Louisiana businesswoman and political activist
- Gail Miller (water polo) (born 1976), Australian water polo player
- Gail O'Grady (born 1963), American actress
- Gail Porter (born 1971), British television presenter
- Gail Sheehy (born 1937), American writer
- Gail Simmons (born 1976), Canadian food critic
- Gail Simone (born 1974), American comics writer
Surname
- Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829), French Hellenist scholar
- Max Gail (born 1943), American actor
Fiction
- Gail, fictional comics character created by French cartoonist Philippe Druillet
- Gail, fictional character in the 1999 video game Dino Crisis
- Gail Leery, fictional character in the television series Dawson's Creek
- Gail Platt, fictional character in the television series Coronation Street
- Gail Wynand, fictional character in the 1943 novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Gail Peck, a fictional character from the TV series Rookie Blue
Places
- Austria
- Gail (river), Austria
- United States
Other uses
- GAIL, Gas Authority of India Limited
- GAIL: GNOME Accessibility Implementation Library - implements the computing accessibility interfaces defined by the GNOME Accessibility Toolkit (ATK)
References
See also
- Gael (given name)
- Gale (disambiguation)
- Gayle (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Gail
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