Gail

Gail may refer to:

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

• Gail, Texas
• Gail Lake Township, Minnesota

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
• Gayle