Miles (surname)

Miles is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Television and film

Sports

Literature
  • Barry Miles, author who has written biographies of Paul McCartney, William Burroughs, Frank Zappa, and Allen Ginsberg as well as books about John Lennon and the Beatles
  • Dorothy Miles, sign language poet and playwright who worked in the UK and U.S.
  • George Henry Miles, dramatist and man of letters
  • Jack Miles, author whose work has appeared in numerous national publications
  • Josephine Miles, poet and literature critic
  • Lawrence Miles, science-fiction author best known for his work on original Doctor Who novels
  • Lawrence Delos Miles, the author of Value Engineering
  • Rosalind Miles, author born and raised in England and now living in both Los Angeles and Kent, England
  • Susan Miles, British poet

Music
  • Buddy Miles (1947–2008), American drummer, member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys
  • C. Austin Miles (Charles Austin Miles, 1868–1946}, American writer of gospel songs
  • Floyd Miles (1943-2018), American musician
  • Jane Mary Miles, married name of Jane Mary Guest (c. 1762–1846), English composer and pianist
  • John Miles, English vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player best known for his 1976 Top 3 hit Music
  • Lizzie Miles, African American singer
  • Lynn Miles, Ottawa-based singer-songwriter
  • Paul Miles-Kingston, British singer who achieved fame as a boy soprano classical singer
  • Philip Napier Miles, English composer, philanthropist and landowner
  • Robert Miles (1969–2017), stage name of Swiss-born Italian DJ and musician Roberto Concina

Military
  • Dixon S. Miles, career U.S. Army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and the Indian Wars; mortally wounded in Civil War
  • Francis George Miles, English recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Admiral Sir Geoffrey John Audley Miles, English naval commander in both World Wars, last Commander in Chief of pre-independence Royal Indian Navy
  • Louis Wardlaw Miles, World War I Medal of Honor recipient
  • Nelson A. Miles, American soldier who served in the American Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish–American War
  • Samuel Miles, revolutionary American and Philadelphia public servant
  • Sherman Miles (1882-1966), son of Nelson A. Miles. U.S. Army officer during World War I and II; head of M.I.D. at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Business

Politics

Other
  • Rev'd Canon Charles Oswald Miles, Anglican Clergyman and brother of Frank Miles
  • David Miles, British economist
  • David Miles (radio), British continuity announcer and newsreader on BBC Radio 4
  • Desmond Miles, main protagonist in the Assassin's Creed franchise's modern storyline (2007-2012)
  • Florence Louisa Miles, daughter of Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet, husband of Francis Edmund Cecil Byng, 5th Earl of Strafford and mother of Edmund Henry Byng, 6th Earl of Strafford
  • Frank Miles, London artist who specialised in pastel portraits of society ladies
  • Frederick George Miles, British aircraft designer and constructor
  • Manly Miles (1826–1898), American zoologist and agriculturalist
  • Tony Miles, English chess player
  • Valerie Miles (artist), British artist
  • Vicki Miles-LaGrange, U.S. District Judge in the Western district of Oklahoma

See also
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