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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.." which itsel ...

, male given name (Latin: ''Aegidius'') *

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 *

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 * Giles of Assisi, Aegidius of Assisi, 13th-century companion of St. Francis of Assisi *

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 pos ...

(1243–1316), 13th-century archbishop *

Carl Giles Ronald "Carl" Giles OBE (29 September 1916 – 27 August 1995), often referred to simply as Giles, was a cartoonist who worked for the British newspaper the '' Daily Express''. His cartoon style was a single topical highly detailed panel, us ...

(1916–1995), British cartoonist for the ''Daily Express'' known simply as "Giles" **

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 *

Herbert Giles Herbert Allen Giles (, 8 December 184513 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge for 35 years. Giles was educated at Charterhouse School before becoming a British dip ...

(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'' of ...

Chinese transliteration system

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;United States *

Giles, Utah Giles is a ghost town located along the Fremont River (Utah), Fremont River in the Blue Valley (Wayne County, Utah), Blue Valley of Wayne County, Utah, Wayne County, Utah, United States. The town was inhabited ''circa'' 1883–1919. History I ...

, a US ghost town *

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.

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 ...

, US *

Giles County, Virginia Giles County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia on the West Virginia state line. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,787. Its county seat is Pearisburg. Giles County is included in the Blacksburg- Christiansburg, VA M ...

, US ;Australia *

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 th ...

, a state electoral district in South Australia *

Giles Weather Station Giles Weather Station (also referred to as Giles Meteorological Station or Giles) is located in Western Australia near the Northern Territory border, about west-south-west of Alice Springs and west of Uluru. It is the only staffed weather sta ...

near the Western Australian - South Australian border *

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 ;Argentina *

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 ;United Kingdom *

Chalfont St Giles Chalfont St Giles is a village and civil parish in southeast Buckinghamshire, England. It is in a group of villages called The Chalfonts, which also includes Chalfont St Peter and Little Chalfont. It lies on the edge of the Chiltern Hills, ...

, Buckinghamshire *

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 ...

, Devon

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* "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'' *

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 * ''

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 * ''

Giles Goat-Boy ''Giles Goat-Boy'' (1966) is the fourth novel by American writer John Barth. It is a metafictional comic novel in which the universe is portrayed as a university campus in an elaborate allegory of both the hero's journey and the Cold War. Its tit ...

'', 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) 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''

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