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Giles (given name)

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Pronunciation
  
French: [ʒij]

Region of origin
  
medieval France

Gender
  
masculine

Word/name
  
French form of Aegidius

Giles is a masculine given name.

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Giles [dʒaɪlz] is the Medieval English form of the Old French saints' name Giles, an altered form of Latin Aegidius. The modern French form is Gilles.

Notable people with this given name

  • 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
  • Gilles Bellemare, Canadian composer and conductor
  • Gilles Bensimon, French fashion photographer
  • Gilles Binchois, Franco-Flemish composer
  • Giles Blunt (born 1952), Canadian novelist and screenwriter
  • Gyles Brandreth (born 1948), British author
  • Gilles Carle (1929-2009), Canadian filmmaker
  • Giles Chichester (born 1946), British Conservative Party politician
  • Giles Coren (born 1969), British journalist
  • Giles Corey (1621–1692), victim of the Salem witch trials
  • Gilles de Roberval, French mathematician
  • Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995), French philosopher
  • Gilles Duceppe (born 1947), Québécois sovereigntist
  • Gilles Fauconnier, French linguist
  • Giles Gilbert Scott (1880–1960), British architect
  • Giles Henderson (born 1942), CBE, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
  • Gilles Kepel, French scholar
  • Giles Kristian (born 1975), British author
  • Gilles Legardinier (born 1965) French novelist
  • Giles Martin (born 1969), English record producer and songwriter
  • Gilles Muller, Luxemburgish tennis player
  • Giles Pellerin (1906–1998), American businessman most famous for attending every game of the USC Trojans football team from 1925 until his death
  • Gilles Peterson (born c.1964), English DJ and record label owner
  • Giles Radice, Baron Radice (born 1936), British politician
  • Gilles de Rais, a.k.a. Gilles de Montmorency-Laval, French serial killer
  • Giles Scott-Smith, political researcher
  • Gilles Simon (born 1984), French tennis player
  • Gilles Villeneuve (1950–1982), Canadian racing driver

    • 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

    • References

    Giles (given name) Wikipedia
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