Miles (given name)
Miles /ˈmaɪlz/ is a male name from the Latin miles, a soldier.[1][2] 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.
Persons with the name
- Miles Aiken, American basketball player
- Miles Austin, Cleveland Browns wide receiver
- Miles Berkeley, British botanist and clergyman
- Miles Browning, World War II admiral
- Miles Dempsey, World War II general
- Miles Davis, jazz trumpet player
- Miles Fleetwood, English politician
- Miles Holmwood, Guitarist and Multiplatinum Producer.
- Miles Kane, an English musician, the co-frontman of The Last Shadow Puppets and former frontman of The Rascals.
- Miles Lord, American jurist
- Miles Nightingall, British army officer
- Miles Partridge, English courtier
- Miles Plumlee, American basketball player
- Miles Sandys, English politician
- Miles Stapleton of Bedale, English knight
- Miles Teller, American actor
- Miles Thomas, British businessman
- Miles Walker, Manx politician
- Miles Warren, New Zealand architect
- Fictional
- Miles Edgeworth, a prosecutor in the Ace Attorney series
- Miles Halter, the protagonist of the novel Looking for Alaska
- Miles Hollingsworth, character from Degrassi
- M (James Bond), character in the James Bond novels whose real name is Sir Miles Messervy
- Miles Morales, Spider-Man, successor to Peter Parker in Ultimate Spider-Man after Peter dies in battle
- Miles O'Brien (Star Trek), character in the Star Trek universe
- Miles Papazian, character in the television show 24
- Miles Quaritch, character in the film Avatar
- Miles "Tails" Prower, fox in the Sonic the Hedgehog series
- Miles Straume, in the television show Lost
- Miles Teg, fictional character in the Dune series
- Miles Upshur, the main protagonist of the survival horror game Outlast
- Miles Vorkosigan, character in a science fiction series by Lois McMaster Bujold
References
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