People
- Charles Tilly, sociologist
- Jacques Louis François Delaistre de Tilly, French general in the Napoleonic Wars
- James Tilly Matthews, the first fully documented case of paranoid schizophrenia
- Jennifer Tilly, actress, poker player
- Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, a Field Marshal who commanded the Imperial and Holy Roman Empire's forces in the Thirty Years' War
- Meg Tilly, actress, dancer, and author
- Tilly van der Zwaard, a Dutch middle distance runner
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