Miles (surname)

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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 U.K. 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), English author
  • Susan Miles, British poet

Music

  • Buddy Miles (1947–2008), American drummer, member of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys
  • Butch Miles (1944–2023), American drummer and musician
  • 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 (1949–2021), English vocalist, guitarist and keyboard player best known for his 1976 Top 3 hit Music
  • Lizzie Miles, African American singer
  • Luke "Long Gone" Miles (1925–1987), American Texas blues and electric blues singer and songwriter
  • 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
  • M.I.D. at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Business

Politics

Other

See also

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