Gildea
# Gildea

Gildea is a surname.

Although spelled "Gildea", the name is pronounced "gill-day", rhyming with the Irish surname "O'Shea".

Notable people with the surname include:

* Damien Gildea, (born 1969), Australian mountaineer and Antarctic explorer
   * the Gildea Glacier is named after him
* Harry Gildea (1890–1917), Scottish footballer
* James Gildea, (1838–1920), British Army officer and philanthropist
* James H. Gildea, (1890–1988), American newspaperman and Democratic member of the US House of Representatives
* John Gildea, Irish Gaelic footballer
* Johnny Gildea, (1910–79), American football player
* Lorie Skjerven Gildea, (born 1961), attorney and Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
* Peter Gildea (1883–1940), Scottish footballer
* Robert Gildea, (born 1952), professor of Modern History at Oxford University
* Tom Gildea, (born 1939), Irish independent politician
* Willie Gildea, (born 1888), Scottish footballer
