Gail (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]
Notable people with the given name include:
- 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 Goodrich (born 1943), American basketball player
- 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 Nkoane Mabalane (born 1984), South African actress and model
- Gail Miller (water polo) (born 1976), Australian water polo player
- Gail Minault (born 1939), American historian
- Gail O'Grady (born 1963), American actress
- Gail Porter (born 1971), British television presenter
- Gail Ryan (born 1939), American hairstylist
- Gail Sheehy (born 1937), American writer
- Gail Simmons (born 1976), Canadian food critic
- Gail Simone (born 1974), American comics writer
Fictional characters
- 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
See also
References
- ^ Campbell, Mike. "Popularity for the name Gail". Behind the Name. Retrieved 23 December 2017.
This page or section lists people that share the same given name.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.