Pilar (given name)
Pilar is a feminine Spanish language given name; traditionally short for "Maria del Pilar". It may refer to:
- Pilar Arlando, Portuguese holder of the title of Miss World Singapore for 2009–2010
- Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican educator, historian and political activist
- Pilar Bardem, Spanish film and television actress
- Pilar Barreiro, Spanish politician
- Pilar Barrios, Uruguayan poet
- Pilar Bastardés, Spanish actress
- Pilar Bayer Spanish mathematician
- Pilar Bosley, American ice dancer
- Pilar de Borbón, Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz
- Pilar del Castillo, Spanish Member of the European Parliament
- Pilar de Lusarreta, Argentine author and critic
- Pilar Geijo, Argentine Marathon swimmer
- Pilar Hidalgo, Spanish female athlete
- Pilar Hidalgo-Lim, Filipino educator and civic leader
- Pilar Homem de Melo, Portuguese singer-songwriter
- Pilar López de Ayala, Spanish film actress
- Pilar López Júlvez, Spanish choreographer and ballerina
- Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano
- Pilar Manjón, president of the association for the victims of 11-M
- Pilar Mateos, Spanish writer of children's literature
- Pilar Mazzetti, Peruvian doctor who currently holds the title of Minister of the Interior
- Pilar Medina, first Spanish delegate to win the Miss International title in 1977
- Pilar Miró, Spanish screenwriter and film director
- Pilar Montenegro, Mexican Latin pop singer and actress
- Pilar Muñoz, Spanish actress of stage and film
- Pilar Muñoz, Spanish singer, member of the band Las Ketchup
- Pilar Nores de García, Argentine economist
- Pilar Pallete, Peruvian actress and third wife of the American film star John Wayne
- Pilar Paz Pasamar, Spanish poet and writer
- Pilar Pellicer, Mexican film actress
- Pilar Rahola, Spanish journalist, writer and former politician and MP
- Pilar Ramírez, Mexican synchronized swimmer
- Pilar Revuelta, Spanish film set decorator and art director
- Pilar Roldán, Mexican fencer
- Pilar Rubio, Spanish reporter and TV presenter
- Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente, Spanish astrophysicist working as a professor in University of Barcelona
- Pilar Seurat, Filipina-American film and television actress
- Pilar Vallugera, Catalan politician
Fictional characters
- Pilar, from Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Pilar Estravados from Agatha Christie' "Hercule Poirot's Christmas"
- Pilar, from Paulo Coelho's novel By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
- Pilar, from the musical Legally Blonde
- Pilar Cortez, from the ABC television series Last Resort
- Pilar Ortega, from the CBS nighttime soap opera Falcon Crest
- Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald, from the NBC/DirecTV soap opera Passions
- Pilar Reed, from the SyFy television series Eureka
- Pilar Ternera, from the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Pilar, a doll in the Groovy Girls line by Manhattan Toy
- Pilar Zuazo, from the Showtime dark comedy series Weeds
- Pilar, from Margaret Atwood's novel The Year of the Flood
- Pilar Dunoff, from Argentine soap opera Rebelde Way
