Gal

Gal, an alteration of girl, is a casual term for a woman. The pronunciation of the male or female given name is "gaul". "Gal" meaning wave in Hebrew

Gal may also refer to:

People

Surname

• Gál, a list of people with the Hungarian surname
• Edward Gal (born 1970), Dutch dressage rider
• Gedalia Gal (born 1933), Israeli farmer and former politician
• Igor Gal (born 1983), Croatian footballer
• Jenny Gal (born 1969), Dutch-Italian judoka
• Riki Gal, Israeli singer
• Sandra Gal (born 1985), German LPGA golfer
• Șandor Gal (born 1955), Romanian former ice hockey player
• Shmuel Gal, Israeli mathematician and professor
• Udi Gal (born 1979), Israeli Olympic sailor
• Uziel Gal (1923-2002), German-born Israeli gun designer, designer and namesake of the Uzi submachine gun
• Yehoshua Gal (born 1951), Israeli former footballer
• Zehava Gal, Israeli operatic mezzo-soprano

Given name or nickname

• Gal I (Bishop of Clermont) (c. 489–c. 553), Christian saint and Bishop of Clermont
• Gal Alberman (born 1983), Israeli footballer
• Gal Arel (born 1989), Israeli footballer
• Gal Barel (born 1990), Israeli footballer
• Gal Costa (born 1945), Brazilian pop singer
• Gal Fridman (born 1975), windsurfer and first Israeli to win an Olympic gold medal
• Gal Gadot (born 1985), Israeli actress and model
• Paul Gallen, Australian rugby league footballer
• Gal Mekel (born 1988), Israeli National Basketball Association player
• Gal Nevo (born 1987), Israeli swimmer
• Gal Nir (born 1983), Israeli football goalkeeper
• Gal Shish (born 1989), Israeli footballer
• Gal Weinstein (born 1970), Israeli artist
• Gal Yekutiel (born 1981), Israeli judoka

Pseudonym or nom de guerre

• GAL (cartoonist), pseudonym of Belgian cartoonist Gerard Alsteens (born 1940)
• János Gálicz or "General Gal", Austro-Hungarian brigade and division commander during the Spanish Civil War

Places

• Gal or Gali (town), a town in Abkhazia
• Gal, Azerbaijan, a village and municipality in Nakhchivan
• Gal or Hal, Azerbaijan, a village in Qubadli
• Gal, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran

GAL

• Human Genome Organization symbof for galanin, a peptide
• GAL (cuneiform), Sumerian cuneiform
• Gate Array Logic, a programmable logic device
• Gazi Anadolu Lisesi, a Turkish high school located at Ankara
• Gatwick Airport Limited
• General Aircraft Limited
• Generalized Automation Language
• Generic array logic
• Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, the standard work on Arabic literature by Carl Brockelmann
• Get a life (idiom) (in internet slang)
• Global Address List in groupware
• Global administrative law
• Global Aero Logistics
• Google Automotive Link, see Android Auto
• Go-Ahead London
• Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport (IATA airport code)
• Great Autonomies and Freedom (Grandi Autonomie e Libertà), a political group in the Senate of Italy
• Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación, a Spanish death squad active in the 1980s set up to fight ETA
• Grüne Alternative Liste, various organisations representing the German Green party at state or communal level, the most well-known being the Grün-Alternative Liste in Hamburg
• Guardian ad litem, see legal guardian

Other

• .gal, a top-level Internet domain for Galicia, Spain
• Gal (unit), a unit of acceleration used extensively in the science of gravimetry
• abbreviation for gallon, a unit of capacity or volume
• Galactose, an organic compound sometimes abbreviated Gal
• Gal-class submarine of the Israeli Navy
• Stadium Gal, a football stadium in Irun, Spain
• Gal (1969 album), by Gal Costa
• Gyaru (ギャル, gal), a Japanese fashion style for young women
• Kogal, a newer Japanese fashion style for young women, also sometimes referred to as "gal"
• Galeandra, orchid genus

See also

• Avigdor Ben-Gal (born 1936), Israeli former general
• Avner Ben-Gal (born 1966), Israeli painter and artist