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.

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

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