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Byles

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Byles is an English surname (spelling variations Biles, Boyles, Billes, Bailie, Bill and others) and/or transliteration of the Gaelic O'Boyles. People with that name include:

  • Dan Byles (born 1974), British politician, ocean rower and polar explorer
  • Edward Byles Cowell (1826 – 1903), translator of Persian poetry and the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University
  • Gary Byles, contemporary Australian Army officer
  • Janice Byles (born 1944), later Janice Meek, ocean rower and polar explorer
  • John Barnard Byles (1801 – 1884), British barrister
  • Junior Byles (born 1948), Jamaican reggae singer
  • Marie Byles (1900 – 1979), conservationist, solicitor and author
  • Mather Byles (1706 – 1788), British North American clergyman
  • Thomas Byles (1870 – 1912), British Catholic priest, passenger on the RMS Titanic
  • William Byles (1839 – 1917), British newspaper owner and Liberal politician