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surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Bill Sayles
William Nisbeth Sayles (July 27, 1917 – November 20, 1996) was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played with the Boston Red Sox in the 1939 season, and for the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943. Born in P ...
(1917–1996), American baseball player
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Charlie Sayles
Charles Warner Sayles (born January 4, 1948) is an American Chicago blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter. At various times, Sayles has played alongside Pete Seeger, Bobby Parker, Deborah Coleman, and Bill Monroe. He has had three albums iss ...
(born 1948), American Chicago blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter
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Emanuel Sayles
Emanuel Sayles (January 31, 1907 – October 5, 1986) was an American jazz banjoist chiefly active in the New Orleans jazz scene.
Biography
Sayles was born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana and played violin and viola as a child, then taught himsel ...
(1907–1986), American musician
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G. O. Sayles
George Osborne Sayles (21 April 1901 – 28 February 1994) was an English people, English historian best known for his work on the medieval English law courts and the early Parliament of England, English Parliaments.
Early life
G. O. Sayles was ...
(1901–1994), English historian
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George Sayles
George Sayles (26 March 1899 – June 1971) was an English professional footballer who played as a full back in the Football League for Reading, in non-League football for York City was on the books of Cardiff City without making a league appea ...
(1899–1971), English professional footballer and cricketer
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Irving Sayles
Irving Sayles (1872 – 8 February 1914) was an African-American vaudeville entertainer. He spent much of his life in Australia as a popular minstrel show performer, touring the Tivoli circuit. He performed coon songs and employed a self-deprecatin ...
(1872–1914), American entertainer
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John Sayles
John Thomas Sayles (born September 28, 1950) is an American independent film director, screenwriter, editor, actor, and novelist. He is known for writing and directing the films '' The Brother from Another Planet'' (1984), '' Matewan'' (1987), ...
(born 1950), American director
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