Yet another piece in our series First Names First! This time about Jill! It is a short form of the name Jillian (Gillian), which in turn originates as a Middle English variant of Juliana, the feminine form of the name Julian.

Below is a chronological list of some of the women born with that name. Pick one and then follow the Wikipedia link to read about these women, and see what if anything they could contribute your life with. Give a couple of minutes of your life to this. Lives lived all have something to tell us – let them!

Jill Knight* (b Christie) politician - Bristol, England (1923)

Jill Ireland* actress - England (1936)
Jill Paton Walsh* (b Bliss) novelist/writer of children’s books - London, England (1937)

Jill St. John* actress – Los Angeles, CA USA (1940)
Jill Clayburgh* actress – New York, NY USA (1944)
Jill Murphy* writer and illustrator of children’s books - London, England (1949)

Jill Biden* (b Jacobs) teacher/First Lady – Hammonton, NJ USA (1951)
Jill Zimmerman* computer scientist – Naperville, IL USA (1959)

Jill Talley* voice actress – Chicago, IL USA (1962)

Jill Wagner* model/actress/television personality – Winston-Salem, NC USA (1979)

Jill Costello* rower (coxswain)/lung cancer activist - San Francisco, CA USA (1987)

Updated 22.11.2022