Myles (name)

Myles is a given name as well as a surname.

Notable people with the name include:

Given name

Academics

  • Myles Delola (2020), university president and president of the National Loyalty Association
  • Myles Burnyeat (1939-2019), English classicist and philosopher

Athletes

  • Myles Turner (born 1996), American basketball player
  • Myles Anderson (born 1990), English footballer
  • Myles Beerman (born 1999), Maltese footballer
  • Myles Dorrian (born 1982), Australian rugby union player
  • Myles Gaskin (born 1997), American football player
  • Myles Hogarth (born 1975), Scottish footballer
  • Myles Landick (born 1989), Jerseyman rugby union player and groundsman
  • Myles Lane (1903–1987), American professional ice hockey player, college football player and coach, and New York Supreme Court justice
  • Myles Wakefield (born 1974), South African former tennis player
  • Myles White (born 1990), American National Football League player
  • Myles Garrett (born 1995), American National Football League player

In arts and entertainment

  • Myles na gCopaleen, a pen name of Brian O'Nolan (1911–1966), Irish novelist, playwright and satirist
  • Myles Birket Foster (1825–1899), English illustrator, watercolour artist and engraver
  • Myles Goodwyn (born 1948), guitarist, lead vocalist, main songwriter and founding member of the Canadian hard rock band April Wine
  • Myles Heskett, drummer of the Australian hard rock band Wolfmother
  • Myles Kennedy (born 1969), lead singer and guitarist for the rock band Alter Bridge

Politicians

In religion

  • Myles Coverdale (1488–1569), English ecclesiastical reformer, Bible translator who produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English
  • Myles Munroe (1954–2014), Bahamian Evangelical Christian evangelist and ordained Pentecostal minister

Soldiers

  • Myles Keogh (1840–1876), Irish soldier killed in Custer's Last Stand
  • Myles Standish (c. 1584–1656), Mayflower passenger and military advisor

Surname

In music

Athletes

Actors

Politicians

Other fields

  • Edgar Myles (1894–1977), British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Eileen Myles (born 1949), American poet
  • Gareth Myles, British academic economist
  • John Myles (c. 1621–1683), founder of Swansea, Massachusetts and founder of the earliest recorded Baptist churches in Wales and Massachusetts
  • Thomas Myles (1857–1937), Irish surgeon and nationalist

See also

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