Miles (given name)

Miles /ˈmaɪlz/ is a male name from the Latin miles, a soldier. The medieval knight was called miles in Medieval Latin, while in Classical Latin, miles meant simply soldier of any sort, including infantry.

Miles Gloriosus, whose name means "boastful soldier", was a comic stock character in classical Roman drama.

Miles has several variant forms, some of which offer their own derivations: Milan, Milo, Milos, Myles and Mylo.

Myles in Ireland may well derive from the Gaelic names Maol Íosa (devotee of Jesus) or Maol Mhuire (devotee of Mary).

People with the name

• Miles (bishop of Susa) (d. c. 340)
• Miles of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford (d. 1143)
• Miles of Plancy (d. 1174), Crusader knight
• Miles de Cogan (fl. 1170s), Anglo-Norman knight
• Miles de Angulo (fl. 1250s), Anglo-Irish knight
• Miles of Marseilles (b. c. 1294), Jewish physician
• Miles de Noyers (d. 1350), French diplomat
• Miles Aiken, American basketball player
• Miles Austin, American football player
• Miles Berkeley, British botanist and clergyman
• Miles Boykin (born 1996), American football player
• Miles Brown (American football) (born 1997), American football player
• Miles Browning, United States Navy admiral
• Miles Dempsey, British Army general
• Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter
• Miles Fleetwood, English politician
• Miles Franklin, Australian author
• Miles Heizer (born 1994), American actor
• Miles Holmwood, Canadian guitarist and record producer
• Miles Kane, English musician
• Miles Lord, American jurist
• Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter
• Miles Mander, English actor
• Miles Mikolas, American baseball player
• Miles E. Mills, American politician
• Miles Nightingall, British army officer
• Miles Partridge, English courtier
• Miles Plumlee, American basketball player
• Miles Sanders (born 1997), American football player
• Miles Sandys, English politician
• Miles Standish, military leader of the Plymouth Colony of pilgrims
• Miles Stapleton of Bedale, English knight
• Miles Teller, American actor
• Miles Thomas, British businessman
• Miles Walker, Manx politician
• Miles Warren, New Zealand architect

Fictional

• "Baby", protagonist in the film Baby Driver whose real name is Miles
• Miles, a mule character in the animated movie Barnyard
• Miles, a character in the animated series The Ridonculous Race
• Miles Archer, character in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its adaptations
• Miles Axlerod, character and main antagonist of Cars 2
• Miles Callisto, character in the animated television series Miles from Tomorrowland
• Miles Bennett Dyson, character in the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Miles Edgeworth, character in the Ace Attorney series
• Miles Hendon, character in the novel The Prince and the Pauper and its adaptations
• Miles Hollingsworth, character in the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation
• M (James Bond), character in the James Bond novels whose real name is Sir Miles Messervy
• Miles Lennox, character in the television series Backstage
• Miles Morales, Spider-Man, successor to Peter Parker in Ultimate Spider-Man after Peter dies in battle
• Miles Mayhem, antagonist of the animated television series M.A.S.K.
• Miles Matheson, protagonist of the television series Revolution
• Miles O'Brien (Star Trek), character in the Star Trek universe
• Miles Papazian, character in the television series 24
• Miles "Tails" Prower, fox character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Miles Silverberg, character in the television series Murphy Brown
• Miles Straume, character in the television series Lost
• Miles Teg, character in the Dune universe
• Miles Upshur, character in the video game Outlast
• Miles Vorkosigan, character in the Vorkosigan Saga novels and stories