Gilead (disambiguation)
# 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 totalitarian 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
