Gildea
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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