A gale is a very strong wind.

Gale may also refer to:

Places

United States

  • Gale, Illinois, a village
  • Gale, Indiana, an unincorporated community
  • Gale Peak, a mountain in California
  • Gale, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Gale, Wisconsin, a town
  • Gale River, New Hampshire

Elsewhere

  • Gale (crater), on Mars
  • Praia da Galé, a beach in Portugal
  • Gale (Chalcidice), an ancient Greek colony of Chalcis on Chalkidiki peninsula

People and fictional characters

  • Gale (singer), a Puerto Rican pop singer
  • Gale (given name)
  • Gale (surname)
  • Gale (mythology), a Greek mythological witch
  • George Gale (cartoonist) (1929–2003), who drew under the name Gale
  • Gale, an Angry Birds character

Other uses

  • Gale (publisher), a publisher of reference books and databases, formerly known as the Gale Group, then Thomson Gale
  • Gale College, a defunct college in Wisconsin, US
  • HMNZS Gale (T04), a minesweeper of the Royal New Zealand Navy
  • Gale, a variant of the Shannon switching game
  • Gale, a parcel of land leased to a Freeminer for mining, principally in the Forest of Dean, England
  • Gale, a Brass-Era automobile manufactured by Western Tool Works in Galesburg, Illinois, US
  • Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE), a DARPA-funded research program

See also

  • Myrica gale, a plant also known as sweet gale, used for flavouring
  • Gael
  • Gail (disambiguation)
  • Gales (disambiguation)
  • Gayle (disambiguation)
  • Galesville (disambiguation), including Galeville