Giles
Giles may refer to:
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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 known simply as "Giles"
- Giles family, a fictional family featured in cartoons by Giles
- Herbert Giles (1845–1935), British diplomat and sinologist, co-author of the Wade–Giles Chinese transliteration system
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
- United Kingdom
- Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
- St Giles in the Wood, Devon
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
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