Butch Gilliland (born February 25, 1958) is a former NASCAR Winston Cup Series and Craftsman Truck Series driver from California. He was the 1997 Winston West (now NASCAR K&N Pro Series West) champion and based on the west coast. All of his 10 Cup starts came at either Sears Point Raceway or Phoenix International Raceway, most of them as West competitors in Cup/West combination races, and all 12 of his Truck Series starts came at various west coast tracks. He has one NASCAR top-ten, which he recorded in a Truck Series race at Saugus Speedway in Saugus, California in 1995. He retired from competitive racing in 2002.

He is the father of Cup Series driver David Gilliland and the grandfather of K&N Pro Series West driver Todd Gilliland.