Lillian (name)
Lillian (or Lilian) is a female given name. It is Latin, meaning 'Lily'. In French, Lilian (French pronunciation: [li.ljɑ̃]) is the male form of the name, while Liliane is the female form. The first time this name became popular was in the early 1700's when France started expanding around the world.
Notable people
- Princess Lilian of Belgium (1916–2002), wife of King Leopold III of Belgium
- Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland (1915-2013), wife of Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland of Sweden
- Lilian Constantini (1902-1982), born Liliane Chapiro-Volpert, French actress in the 1920s and 1930s.
- Lillian Disney (1899–1997), widow of Walt Disney
- Lilian Fowler (1886–1954), Australian politician
- Lilian Garcia (b. 1966), American singer and ring announcer
- Lillian Gish (1893–1993), American actress
- Lillian Hellman (1905–1984), American playwright
- Lillian Hoban (1925–1998), American author
- Lilian Lee, Chinese author
- Lilian Mercedes Letona (1954–1983), Salvadoran guerrilla and revolutionary
- Lilian Rolfe (1914-1945), Allied Secret Agent in World War II
- Lillian Smith (author) (1897–1966), American author
- Lilian Thuram (b. 1972), French football player
- Lillian Wald (1867–1940), founder of American community nursing
- Lillian Pulitzer Rousseau (1931-2013), American fashion designer
- Lilly Vo (1931-2013), American fashion designer
- St. Lillian (d. 852), Martyr of Córdoba, also known as Liliosa[1]
Fictional characters
- Lillian Rearden, character in the book Atlas Shrugged
- Queen Lilian, fictional mother of Fiona in the Shrek series
- Lillian van der Woodsen, mother of Serena van der Woodsen in the Gossip Girl series
- Lillian DeVille, from the nickelodeon TV series Rugrats and All Grown Up!
- Lilly Truscott, from Hannah Montana
- Lily Evans, from Harry Potter
- Lillian Donovan, from Bridesmaids:2011
- Lillian "Lily" Cavanaugh, from The Talisman
- Lillian Kaushtupper, landlady of Kimmy and Titus in the Netflix original series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
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