Hilail Gildin (November 28, 1928 – March 3, 2015) was an American scholar and editor.
He served as professor of philosophy at Queens College, City University of New York.
He was also the editor-in-chief of Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy.He was awarded his Ph.D.
in 1962 by the University of Chicago, where he was a student of Leo Strauss, with whom Gildin collaborated closely in the establishment of the journal Interpretation.