- Gibbon, Edward Gibbon - English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)
--1 is a kind of historian, historiographer
- gibbon, Hylobates lar - smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies
--2 is a kind of lesser ape
--2 is a member of Hylobates, genus Hylobates