Byles Explained

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