Gilead (disambiguation)

Gilead (Hebrew: גלעד‎) is the name of three persons and two places in the Bible.

Gilead may also refer to:

Places

Australia

• Gilead, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney

United States

• Gilead, Connecticut, a village in the town of Hebron
• Gilead, Illinois, an unincorporated community
• Gilead, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Gilead, Maine, a town
  • Former Gilead Railroad Station, Maine, on the National Register of Historic Places
• Gilead Township, Michigan
• Gilead, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Gilead, Nebraska, a village
• Lake Gilead, New York, a reservoir
• Gilead Township, Morrow County, Ohio

People with the name

• Gilead Sher (born 1953), Israeli attorney, government official and peace negotiator
• Gilead J. Wilmot (1834–?), American politician

Arts and entertainment

• Gil'ead, a city in the kingdom of Alagaësia in Christopher Paolini's novel Eragon
• Gilead, the fictional birthplace of Roland Deschain in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series of novels
• Republic of Gilead, the fictional theocratic nation in Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale
• Gilead (novel), a 2004 novel by Marilynne Robinson
• Gilead, a novelette by Zenna Henderson in her Ingathering series

Other uses

• Gilead Sciences, an American biopharmaceutical company based in California
• Watchtower Bible School of Gilead, Jehovah's Witnesses' missionary training program in New York state, aka the Gilead School
• Gilead (tribal group), mentioned in the Bible
• Gilead, a Jaredite military commander in the Book of Mormon

See also

• Mount Gilead (disambiguation)
• Ghilad, a commune in Timiș County, Romania
• Gilad (disambiguation)
• Balm of Gilead (disambiguation)