Gillies Explained
Gillies is both a Scottish surname and a given name shared by several notable people:
Surname uses
Politicians
Sportspeople
- Clark Gillies (1954–2022), Canadian professional ice hockey player, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
- Colton Gillies (born 1989), Canadian amateur ice hockey player
- Craig Gillies (born 1976), English rugby union player
- Eric Gillies (born 1952), Canadian Olympic ice dancer
- John Gillies (1918 - 1991), Scottish footballer
- Matt Gillies (1921 - 1998), Scottish footballer
- Shawn Gillies (born 1981), Jamaican-Australian cricketer
- Simon Gillies (born before 1987), Australian rugby league player
- Trevor Gillies (born 1979), Canadian professional ice hockey player
Others
- Anne Lorne Gillies (born 1944), Scottish singer-songwriter, broadcaster, academic and writer
- Annemarie Gillies, New Zealand professor of Māori research
- Ben Gillies (born 1979), Australian musician
- Betty Gillies (1909 - 1998), American aviator
- Daniel Gillies (born 1976), Canadian-New Zealand actor
- Don Gillies (born 1952), American writer and storyboard artist
- Donald A. Gillies, British philosopher and historian of science and mathematics
- Donald B. Gillies (1928 - 1975), Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
- Elizabeth Gillies (born 1993), American actress
- Ewen Gillies (1825-?), serial emigrant from St. Kilda, Scotland
- Fiona Gillies (born before 1980), British actress
- Harold Gillies (1882 - 1960), New Zealand-English physician, "father of plastic surgery"
- Ian Gillies (before 1944 - 2002), British quiz show champion
- Isabel Gillies (born 1970), American actress
- John Gillies (anaesthetist) (1895-1976) Scottish anaesthetist
- John Gillies (botanist) (1792–1834), Scottish naval surgeon who later became an explorer and botanist
- John Gillies (minister) (1712–1796), a Church of Scotland minister and theological writer
- John Gillies (historian) (1747 - 1836), Scottish historian and classical scholar
- Kylie Gillies (born 1967), Australian television personality
- Liz Gillies, from VICTORiOUS
- Max Gillies (born 1941), Australian actor
- Michael Thomas Gillies (1920 - 1999), English medical entomologist
- Midge Gillies (born before 1977), British journalist and biographer
- Pamela Gillies (born 1953), Scottish academic
- Robert Gillies (disambiguation)
- Rowan Gillies (born 1971), Australian physician, former president of Médecins Sans Frontières
- Stuart Gillies (born before 1987), English chef
- Stuart Gillies (born 1986), Composer of "The Longest Reign" music written for Queen Elizabeth the second
- William George Gillies (1898 - 1973), Scottish painter
- William S. Gillies (1911 - 2000), American artist
Places
See also