Giles (given name)
Appearance
Pronunciation | French: [ʒij] |
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Gender | masculine |
Origin | |
Word/name | French form of Aegidius |
Region of origin | medieval France |
Other names | |
Related names | Gilles, Égide |
Giles or Gyles is a masculine given name.
Giles [dʒaɪlz] is the Medieval English form of the name of the French hermit Saint Giles,[1] which itself is the Old French form of the Latin name Aegidius. The modern French forms are Gilles and the less common Égide.
Notable people with this given name
- Giles
- Saint Giles, 7th/8th-century Christian hermit saint
- Giles of Assisi, Aegidius of Assisi, 13th-century companion of St. Francis of Assisi
- Giles of Rome, 13th-century archbishop
- Giles Blunt (born 1952), Canadian novelist and screenwriter
- Giles Chichester (born 1946), British Conservative Party politician
- Gilles Peterson (born 1964), British musician and disc jockey
- Giles Coren (born 1969), British journalist
- Giles Corey (1621–1692), victim of the Salem witch trials
- Giles Fraser (born 1964), English Anglican priest and broadcaster
- Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960), British architect
- Giles Henderson (born 1942), CBE, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
- Giles Kristian (born 1975), British author
- Giles Martin (born 1969), English record producer and songwriter
- Giles Pellerin (1906–1998), American businessman most famous for attending every game of the USC Trojans football team from 1925 until his death
- Giles Radice, Baron Radice (born 1936), British politician
- Giles Scott-Smith, political researcher
- Giles Terera, actor and singer (Hamilton UK)
- Gyles
- Gyles Brandreth (born 1948), English writer
- Gyles Isham (1903–1976), English actor
- Gyles Longley (1918–2015), British officer
- Gyles Mackrell (1889–1959), British tea planter
- Henry Gyles Turner (1831–1920), Australian banker
Fictional characters
- Giles Wemmbley-Hogg of British radio comedy Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off
- Farmer Giles of Ham, title character of the comic fable by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Giles Habibula, a character in the Legion of Space Series by Jack Williamson
See also
- Aegidius
- Egidio Maria of Saint Joseph
- Gyles v Wilcox
- Giles (disambiguation)
- Giles (surname)
- Gilles (given name)
- Saint Giles (disambiguation)
- Tilen
- All pages beginning with Giles
References
- ^ "qui avoit nom Giles de nos avons ceste vile conquise par la dieu Landas, et fu feruz par mi l'ueil.."