Giles (given name)

Notable people with this given name

• Saint Giles, 7th/8th-century Christian hermit saint
• Giles of Assisi, Aegidius of Assisi, 13th-century companion of St. Francis of Assisi
• Giles of Rome, 13th-century archbishop
• Giles Blunt, Canadian novelist and screenwriter
• Giles Chichester, British Conservative Party politician
• Gilles Peterson, British musician and disc jockey
• Giles Coren, British journalist
• Giles Corey, victim of the Salem witch trials
• Giles Fraser, English Anglican priest and broadcaster
• Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect
• Giles Henderson, CBE, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
• Giles Kristian, British author
• Giles Martin, English record producer and songwriter
• Giles Pellerin, American businessman most famous for attending every game of the USC Trojans football team from 1925 until his death
• Giles Radice, Baron Radice, British politician
• Giles Scott-Smith, political researcher
• Giles Terera, actor and singer

• Gyles Brandreth, English writer
• Gyles Isham, English actor
• Gyles Longley, British officer
• Gyles Mackrell, British tea planter
• Henry Gyles Turner, Australian banker

  Fictional characters

• Giles Wemmbley-Hogg of British radio comedy Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off
• Farmer Giles of Ham, title character of the comic fable by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Giles Habibula, a character in the Legion of Space Series by Jack Williamson