Yeovil is a town in south Somerset, England, on the A30 and A37. It has a population of about 30,000, and is the old constituency of Paddy Ashdown. It is home of the FA cup giant killing team Yeovil Town FC. Famous as a glove making town in the industrial revolution, its football team retain the nickname The Glovers still today. The town's main employer is Westland Helicopters.

The town has two train stations; Yeovil Pen Mill serving the Bristol-Weymouth line, and Yeovil Junction on the London-Exeter line.

Outlying villages include East Coker, the former home of the poet T.S. Eliot, Sutton Bingham, Stoford, Evershot, Halstock and Yetminster, the home of folk band The Yetties . Other nearby villages include Bradford Abbas, Corscombe, the former home of singer Polly Jean Harvey, and Pendomer , where William Dampier (1651-1715) the controversial English explorer, sea captain, and scientific observer was born.

The name "Yeovil" comes via Anglo-Saxon from Celtic gifl, which means "forked river".