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 (given name) Gale (surname) George Gale (cartoonist) (1929–2003), who drew under the name Gale Gale (mythology), a Greek mythological witch 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