Giles (given name)
Giles or Gyles is a masculine given name. It is the Medieval English form of the name of the French hermit Saint Giles,
which itself is the Old French form of the Latin name Aegidius. The modern French forms are Gilles and the less common Égide. Some languages have their own variations of the name, for example Tilen in Slovene.
Notable people with the given name
- Saint Giles, 7th/8th-century Christian hermit saint
- Alfred Giles, several people
- Giles Alington, several people
- Giles Andreae, British writer and illustrator
- Giles of Assisi, Aegidius of Assisi, 13th-century companion of St. Francis of Assisi
- Giles of Rome, 13th-century archbishop
- Giles Barnes, English footballer
- Giles Leonard Barrett, English actor
- Giles Blunt, Canadian novelist and screenwriter
- Giles Brindley, British physiologist, musicologist and composer
- Giles Brook, English politician
- Giles Brydges, several people
- Giles Chichester, British Conservative Party politician
- Giles Clark, English conservationist and TV presenter
- Giles Clarke, British businessman then cricket administrator
- Giles Coke, English professional footballer and coach
- Giles Cooper, several people
- Giles Coren, British journalist
- Giles Corey, victim of the Salem witch trials
- Giles Daubeney, several people
- Giles Deacon, British fashion designer
- Giles Duley, English photographer, chef, writer, CEO and presenter
- Giles Fletcher, the Elder, English poet, politician, and diplomat
- Giles Fraser, English Anglican priest and broadcaster
- Giles Goddard, British Church of England priest
- Giles Goddard (video game programmer), English video game programmer
- Giles Gordon, Scottish literary agent and writer
- Giles B. Harber, American United States Navy admiral
- Giles Henderson, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
- Giles W. Hotchkiss, American attorney and politician
- Giles Hussey (painter), English painter
- Giles Hussey (tennis), British tennis player
- Giles Jackson, American football player
- Giles Beecher Jackson, African-American lawyer, newspaper publisher, entrepreneur, and civil rights activist
- Giles Kristian, British author
- Giles Lamb, British music composer and sound designer
- Giles Mackay, British businessman and property investor
- Giles Martin, English record producer and songwriter
- Giles Matthey, British actor
- Giles Milton, British writer and historian
- Giles Mompesson, English politician
- Giles Pellerin, American businessman
- Giles Portman, British diplomat
- Giles Radice, Baron Radice, British politician
- Giles Rich, American judge
- Giles Rooke, English judge
- Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect
- Giles Scott-Smith, Dutch-British political researcher
- Giles Smith, several people
- Giles Strangways (died 1546), MP
- Giles Strangways (1528–1562), MP
- Giles E. Strangways, pioneer settler of South Australia
- Giles Terera, British actor and singer
- Giles Ji Ungpakorn, Thai academic and Marxist political activist
- Giles Watling, British actor and politician
- Giles Worsley, English architectural historian
- Giles Yeo, American-British biologist
Fictional characters
- Farmer Giles of Ham, the title character of the comic fable by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Giles Habibula, a character in the Legion of Space Series by Jack Williamson
- Giles Wemmbley-Hogg of British radio comedy Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off
- Giles Ralston, one of the main characters of Agatha Christie's play, The Mousetrap
- Giles family, fictional British family created by cartoonist Carl Giles at the end of World War II
- Sir Giles Over-reach, the villain in the English Renaissance drama, A New Way to Pay Old Debts
- Giles French, a fictional character in the American sitcom, Family Affair
- Giles Mercier, a fictional character in the 2012 American action thriller film, Alex Cross
- Giles Winslow Jr, a fictional character in the 2018 film, ''Christopher Robin''