Les (given name)
Les is a given name, usually short for Lester or Leslie. Also, a romanization of Ukrainian name Лесь Help:IPA/Ukrainian|. Les may refer to:
People:
- Les Aspin, American politician
- Les AuCoin, American politician
- Les Baxter, American musician and composer
- Les Besser, American electronics engineer
- Les Binks, Northern Irish heavy metal drummer
- Les Blank, American documentary filmmaker
- Les Brown (bandleader), American jazz musician and bandleader
- Les Brown (speaker), American motivational speaker and politician
- Les Claypool, American rock bassist and founding member of Primus
- Les Costello, Canadian ice hockey player and Catholic priest
- Les Crane, American broadcaster and talk show host
- Les Darcy, Australian boxer
- Les Dawson, English comedian
- Les Dennis, English television presenter
- Les Dodd, English snooker player
- Les Eaves, American businessman and state legislator
- Les Edwards, British illustrator
- Les Elgart, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader
- Les Ferdinand, English football coach and former player
- Les Fradkin, American guitarist and composer
- Les Gleadell, Falkland Islands civil servant
- Les Goble, American National Football League player
- Les Gold, American pawnbroker and media personality
- Les Gray, English singer and songwriter
- Les Green, English footballer and manager
- Les Greenberg, Canadian psychologist
- Les Guthman, American filmmaker
- Les Hull, Canadian politician
- Les Humphries, Founder of the Les Humphries Singers
- Les Kaufman, evolutionary ecologist, Professor of Biology at Boston University
- Les Kurbas, Ukrainian movie and theater director. Considered to be one of the lead figures of the Executed Renaissance
- Les McCann, American soul jazz and R&B pianist and vocalist
- Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer, lead singer of the Bay City Rollers
- Les Mills, New Zealand shot putter, discus thrower and politician
- Les Munro, New Zealand Air Force pilot
- Les Owen (speedway rider), English international speedway rider
- Les Palmer (American football), American National Football League player
- Les Paul, stage name of American jazz guitarist and inventor Lester William Polsfuss
- Les Podervianskyi, Ukrainian painter, poet, playwright and performer
- Les Reed (disambiguation), multiple people
- Les Sealey, English footballer
- Les Serdyuk, Soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actor
- Les Shannon, English football player and manager
- Les Stroud, Canadian filmmaker and survival expert, creator, writer, producer, director, cameraman and host of the television series Survivorman
- Les Tanyuk, Ukrainian theater and film director, dissident and politician
- Les Tremayne, British radio, film, and television actor
- Les Battersby, a fictional character in Coronation Street
- Les Nessman, a fictional character in WKRP in Cincinnati
- Les, a fictional character in the Bring It On film series
- Les, a fictional character in Newsies
- Les, a fictional character in The Search for One-eye Jimmy
- Lifesaver Les, a fictional character in ''Pizza (TV series)''