Giles may refer to:
People
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Giles (given name)
Giles or Gyles is a masculine given name.
Giles () is the Medieval English form of the name of the French hermit '' Saint Giles'',"qui avoit nom Giles de nos avons ceste vile conquise par la dieu Landas, et fu feruz par mi l'ueil.."
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, 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
Saint Giles (, la, Aegidius, french: Gilles), also known as Giles the Hermit, was a hermit or monk active in the lower Rhône most likely in the 6th century. Revered as a saint, his cult became widely diffused but his hagiography is mostly lege ...
(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 (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
The Giles family is a fictional British family created by cartoonist Carl Giles at the end of World War II, appearing first on 5 August 1945.
Much of Giles's World War II work had been cartoons featuring Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and the typ ...
, 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 Chinese transliteration system
Places
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Giles, Utah, a US ghost town
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Giles, West Virginia
Giles is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States, along Cabin Creek (West Virginia), Cabin Creek.
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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 the ...
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Giles County, Virginia, US
;Australia
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Electoral district of Giles, 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
Giles Land District is a land district (cadastral division) of Western Australia, located within the Eastern and Eucla land divisions on the Nullarbor Plain
The Nullarbor Plain ( ; Latin: feminine of , 'no', and , 'tree') is part of the ...
, a land district (cadastral division) of Western Australia
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San Andrés de Giles
San Andrés de Giles is a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the administrative seat
An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration ...
, a town in Buenos Aires Province
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Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire
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St Giles in the Wood
St Giles in the Wood is a village and civil parish in the Torridge district of Devon, England. The village lies about 2.5 miles east of the town of Great Torrington, and the parish, which had a population of 566 in 2001 compared with 623 in 1901 ...
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Other uses
* "Giles", a solo electronica side-project of
Tommy Giles Rogers, Jr.
Tommy Giles Rogers (born December 30, 1980 in Morganton, North Carolina) is an American musician, most notable for being the lead vocalist, keyboardist and lyricist of the American progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me, which he co-fo ...
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
The Giles G-202 is an unlimited-level aerobatic airplane designed by Richard Giles.
This carbon fiber composite monoplane was manufactured by AkroTech Aviation in Troutdale, Oregon. The tandem two-seater was based upon the single-seater Giles G ...
, an aerobatic plane designed by Richard Giles
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Farmer Giles of Ham
''Farmer Giles of Ham'' is a comic medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949. The story describes the encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax, and how Giles manages to use these to ...
'', 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)
Giles is a bacteriophage that infects ''Mycobacterium smegmatis'' bacteria. The genome of this phage is very different from that of other mycobacteriophages and is highly mosaic
A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregu ...
, a virus infecting the bacterial species ''Mycobacterium smegmatis''
See also
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Gilles (disambiguation) The Gilles are the primary group of participants in the Carnival of Binche.
Gilles may also refer to:
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* Gilles (surname), a list of people with the surname
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