Byles is an English
surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
(spelling variations Biles, Boyles, Billes, Bailie, Bill and others) and/or transliteration of the Gaelic O'Boyles. People with that name include:
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Dan Byles
Daniel Alan Byles (born 24 June 1974) is a former British politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire from 2010 to 2015.
Background
Byles was born in Hastings, East Sussex, but spent his early childhood as an exp ...
(born 1974), British politician, ocean rower and polar explorer
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Edward Byles Cowell (1826 – 1903), translator of Persian poetry and the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University
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Gary Byles
Brigadier Gary Byles, is a retired senior public servant and a former Australian Army officer.
Military career
Byles joined the Australian Army in 1972 and, after training at the Officer Training Unit, Scheyville, graduated from the Officer Cade ...
, contemporary Australian Army officer
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Janice Byles
Janice "Jan" Meek FRGS (formerly Cooper and Byles, born 1944) is a British adventurer and ocean rower. In 1997 she took part in the first ever Atlantic Rowing Race, the Port St Charles Barbados Atlantic Rowing Race. Meek successfully crossed t ...
(born 1944), later Janice Meek, ocean rower and polar explorer
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John Barnard Byles
Sir John Barnard Byles (11 January 1801 – 3 February 1884) was a British barrister, judge and author of books on law and the economy. He published an influential text on bills of exchange in 1829, commonly referred to as "''Byles on Bills''".
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(1801 – 1884), British barrister
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Junior Byles (born 1948), Jamaican reggae singer
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Marie Byles
Marie Beuzeville Byles (8 April 1900 – 21 November 1979) was an Australian conservationist, pacifist, the first practising female solicitor in New South Wales (NSW), mountaineer, explorer and avid bushwalker, feminist, journalist, and an o ...
(1900 – 1979), conservationist, solicitor and author
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Mather Byles
Mather Byles (born 26 March 1706, Boston, Massachusetts – 5 July 1788), was an American clergyman active in British North America.
Byles was descended, on his mother's side, from John Cotton and Richard Mather and was a grandson ...
(1706 – 1788), British North American clergyman
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Thomas Byles
Thomas Roussel Davids Byles (26 February 1870 – 15 April 1912) was an English Catholic priest who was a passenger aboard the on its maiden voyage when it sank after striking an iceberg during the night of 14–15 April 1912. He was repo ...
(1870 – 1912), British Catholic priest, passenger on the RMS ''Titanic''
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William Byles
Sir William Pollard Byles (13 February 1839 – 15 October 1917) was a British newspaper owner and radical Liberal politician.
Background
Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1839, W P Byles was the son of William Byles, proprietor of the ''Bradford ...
(1839 – 1917), British newspaper owner and Liberal politician
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