Byles
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Byles is an English surname (spelling variations Biles, Boyles, Billes, Bailie, Bill and others) and/or transliteration of the Gaelic O'Boyles. People with that name include:
- Dan Byles (born 1974), British politician, ocean rower and polar explorer
- Edward Byles Cowell (1826 – 1903), translator of Persian poetry and the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University
- Gary Byles, contemporary Australian Army officer
- Janice Byles (born 1944), later Janice Meek, ocean rower and polar explorer
- John Barnard Byles (1801 – 1884), British barrister
- Junior Byles (born 1948), Jamaican reggae singer
- Marie Byles (1900 – 1979), conservationist, solicitor and author
- Mather Byles (1706 – 1788), British North American clergyman
- Thomas Byles (1870 – 1912), British Catholic priest, passenger on the RMS Titanic
- William Byles (1839 – 1917), British newspaper owner and Liberal politician