Giles (given name)

Giles is a masculine given name.

Giles [dʒaɪlz] is the Medieval English form of the Old French saints' name Giles,^[1] an altered form of Latin Aegidius. The modern French form is Gilles.

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 (born 1952), Canadian novelist and screenwriter
• Gyles Brandreth (born 1948), British author
• Giles Chichester (born 1946), British Conservative Party politician
• Giles Coren (born 1969), British journalist
• Giles Corey (1621–1692), victim of the Salem witch trials
• Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960), British architect
• Giles Henderson (born 1942), CBE, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
• Giles Kristian (born 1975), British author
• Giles Martin (born 1969), English record producer and songwriter
• Giles Pellerin (1906–1998), American businessman most famous for attending every game of the USC Trojans football team from 1925 until his death
• Giles Radice, Baron Radice (born 1936), British politician
• Giles Scott-Smith, political researcher

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

See also

• Gyles v Wilcox
• Giles (disambiguation)
• Giles (surname)
• Saint Giles (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with Giles

References

1. ↑ "qui avoit nom Giles de nos avons ceste vile conquise par la dieu Landas, et fu feruz par mi l'ueil.."