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Giles

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Giles may refer to:

People

  • Saint Giles (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 (1243–1316), 13th-century archbishop
  • Carl Giles (1916–1995), British cartoonist for the Daily Express known simply as "Giles"
    • Giles family, a fictional family featured in cartoons by Giles
  • Herbert Giles (1845–1935), British diplomat and sinologist, co-author of the Wade–Giles Chinese transliteration system


Places

United States
Australia
  • Electoral district of Giles, a state electoral district in South Australia
  • Giles Weather Station near the Western Australian - South Australian border
  • Giles Land District, a land district (cadastral division) of Western Australia
Argentina
  • San Andrés de Giles, a town in Buenos Aires Province

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
  • Giles G-202, an aerobatic plane designed by Richard Giles
  • Farmer Giles of Ham, a 1949 Medieval fable written by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Giles Goat-Boy, 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), a virus infecting the bacterial species Mycobacterium smegmatis

See also

  • Gilles (disambiguation)
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