Giles

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Giles may refer to:

People

• Giles (given name), male given name (Latin: Aegidius)
• Giles (surname), family name

• Saint Giles (650–710), 7th-8th-century Christian hermit saint
• Giles of Assisi, Aegidius of Assisi, 13th-century companion of St. Francis of Assisi
• Giles of Rome (1243–1316), 13th-century archbishop
• Carl Giles (1916–1995), British cartoonist for the Daily Express
  • Giles family, a fictional family featured in work by Giles
• Herbert Giles (1845–1935), British diplomat and sinologist, co-author of the Wade–Giles Chinese transliteration system and author of the first widely published Chinese-English dictionary.

Places

United States

• Giles, Utah, a US ghost town
• Giles, West Virginia
• Giles County, Tennessee, US
• Giles County, Virginia, US

Australia

• Electoral district of Giles, a state electoral district in South Australia
• Giles Weather Station near the Western Australian - South Australian border
• Giles Land District, a land district (cadastral division) of Western Australia

Argentina

• San Andrés de Giles, a town in Buenos Aires Province

Other uses

• "Giles", a solo electronica side-project of Tommy Giles Rogers, Jr. who is the frontman for the metal band Between the Buried and Me
• "Giles", a song by Unearth from III: In the Eyes of Fire
• Giles G-202, an aerobatic plane designed by Richard Giles
• Farmer Giles of Ham, a 1949 Medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien
• Giles Goat-Boy, 1966 novel by John Barth, satire of American campus culture
• Giles (Buffy comic), story based on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer television series
• Giles (bacteriophage), a virus infecting the bacterial species Mycobacterium smegmatis