Giles may refer to:
People
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Giles (given name), male given name (Latin: ''Aegidius'')
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Giles (surname)
The surname Giles or Gyles comes from the given name Giles, for which multiple origins have been suggested.
Notable people with the surname Giles
* Adam Giles (born 1973), Australian politician, Chief Minister of the Northern Territory (2013� ...
, family name
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Saint Giles (650–710), 7th–8th-century Christian hermit saint
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Giles of Assisi
Giles of Assisi ( la, Aegidius; 1190 – 1262), was one of the original companions of Francis of Assisi and holds a leading place among them. St. Francis called him "The Knight of our Round Table".
Life
Of Giles' origins and early life nothing c ...
, Aegidius of Assisi, 13th-century companion of St. Francis of Assisi
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Giles of Rome
Giles of Rome O.S.A. ( Latin: ''Aegidius Romanus''; Italian: ''Egidio Colonna''; c. 1243 – 22 December 1316), was a Medieval philosopher and Scholastic theologian and a friar of the Order of St Augustine, who was also appointed to the ...
(1243–1316), 13th-century archbishop
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Carl Giles (1916–1995), British cartoonist for the ''Daily Express'' known simply as "Giles"
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Giles family, a fictional family featured in cartoons by Giles
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Herbert Giles (1845–1935), British diplomat and sinologist, co-author of the
Wade–Giles
Wade–Giles () is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade, during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert A. Giles's '' Chinese–English Dictionary'' o ...
Chinese transliteration system
Places
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Giles, Utah, a US ghost town
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Giles, West Virginia
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Giles County, Tennessee
Giles County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,346. Its county seat is Pulaski.
History
Giles County is named after William Branch Giles, a Senator from Virginia who sponsored th ...
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Giles County, Virginia, US
;Australia
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Electoral district of Giles
Giles is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after explorer Ernest Giles, it is the largest electorate in the state by area, covering of South Australian outback. Its main population centre is t ...
, a state electoral district in South Australia
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Giles Weather Station near the Western Australian - South Australian border
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Giles Land District, a land district (cadastral division) of Western Australia
;Argentina
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San Andrés de Giles, a town in Buenos Aires Province
;United Kingdom
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Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
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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''
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Giles G-202, an aerobatic plane designed by Richard Giles
* ''
Farmer Giles of Ham'', a 1949 Medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Giles Goat-Boy'', 1966 novel by John Barth, satire of American campus culture
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''Giles'' (Buffy comic), story based on the ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' television series
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Giles (bacteriophage), a virus infecting the bacterial species ''Mycobacterium smegmatis''
See also
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Gilles (disambiguation)
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