Miles (first name)

Miles /ˈmaɪlz/ is a male name from the Latin miles, a soldier.^[1][2] The medieval knight was called miles in Medieval Latin, while in Classical Latin, miles meant simply soldier of any sort, including infantry.

Miles Gloriosus, whose name means "boastful soldier", was a comic stock character in classical Roman drama.

Miles has several variant forms, some of which offer their own derivations: Milan, Milo, Milos, Myles and Mylo.

Persons with the name

• Miles Aiken, American basketball player
• Miles Austin, Dallas Cowboys wide receiver
• Miles Browning, World War II admiral
• Miles Davis, jazz trumpet player
• Miles Holmwood, Guitarist and Multiplatinum Producer.
• Miles Kane, an English musician, the co-frontman of The Last Shadow Puppets and former frontman of The Rascals.
• Miles Lord, American jurist

Fictional

• Miles, a character from Strike Witches
• Miles Russel, character from the 1989 film Uncle Buck
• Miles, a donkey from the animated movie Barnyard
• Miles Edgeworth, a prosecutor in the Ace Attorney series
• Miles Hollingsworth, character from Degrassi
• Miles Matheson, character in the television show Revolution
• Miles O'Brien (Star Trek), character in the Star Trek universe
• Miles "Tails" Prower, fox in the Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Miles Papazian, character in the television show 24
• Miles Raymond, character in the 2004 film Sideways
• Miles Straume, in the television show Lost
• Miles Vorkosigan, character in a science fiction series by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Desmond Miles, character from Assassin's Creed video game franchise
• Miles Morales, Spider-Man, successor to Peter Parker in Ultimate Spider-Man after Peter dies in battle
• Miles Teg, fictional character in the Dune series

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