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Jilly

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ6193194
Source-derived summary

Jilly is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:

Jilly Cooper (1937–2025), English author

Jilly Curry, British skier

Jilly Goolden (born 1956), British wine critic, journalist and television personality

Jilly Johnson (born 1953), British model, Page 3 girl

Jilly McCord, Scottish former rugby union player

Jilly Rizzo (1917 – 1992), American restaurateur and entertainer

Jilly's, a popular New York City night club owned by Jilly Rizzo

Jilly Shimkin (born 2003), American soccer player

Fictional characters:

Jilly Kitzinger character in the science fiction series Torchwood

Jilly Coppercorn, character in 2001 book The Onion Girl

See also

Jilly's, a strip club on the lower floor of the New Broadview House Hotel in Toronto, Canada

The Jillies series, a series of works by author Malcolm Saville

Skye-Jilly Edwards (born c.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jilly” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jilly, Wikimedia and disambiguation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 2025, 1956, 1953—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Jilly, Wikimedia and disambiguation is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6193194. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1937, 2025, 1956 and 1953.

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This entry incorporates text from Jilly” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.