Miles is a male name from the Latin miles, a soldier. The medieval knight was called miles in Medieval Latin, while in Classical Latin, miles meant simply soldier of any sort, including infantry. People with the name Miles (bishop of Susa) (d. c. 340) Miles of Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford (d. 1143) Miles of Plancy (d. 1174), Crusader knight Miles de Cogan (fl. 1170s), Anglo-Norman knight Miles de Angulo (fl. 1250s), Anglo-Irish knight Miles of Marseilles (b. c. 1294), Jewish physician Miles de Noyers (d. 1350), French diplomat Miles Aiken, American basketball player Miles Austin, American football player Miles Berkeley, British botanist and clergyman Miles Boykin (born 1996), American football player Miles Brown (American football) (born 1997), American football player Miles Browning, United States Navy admiral Miles Dempsey, British Army general Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter Miles Fleetwood, English politician Miles Franklin, Australian author Miles Heizer (born 1994), American actor Miles Holmwood, Canadian guitarist and record producer Miles James, United States soldier Miles Kane, English musician Miles Lord, American jurist Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter Miles Mander, English actor Miles Mikolas, American baseball player Miles E. Mills, American politician Miles Ocampo, Filipina actress Miles Nightingall, British army officer Miles Partridge, English courtier Miles Plumlee, American basketball player Miles Sanders (born 1997), American football player Miles Sandys, English politician Miles Stapleton of Bedale, English knight Miles Teller, American actor Miles Thomas, British businessman Miles Walker, Manx politician Miles Warren, New Zealand architect Fictional "Baby", protagonist in the film Baby Driver whose real name is Miles Miles, a mule character in the animated movie Barnyard Miles, a character in the animated series The Ridonculous Race Miles, a character in the animated series Rimba Racer Miles Archer, character in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its adaptations Miles Axlerod, character and main antagonist of Cars 2 Miles Callisto, character in the animated television series Miles from Tomorrowland Miles Bennett Dyson, character in the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day Miles Edgeworth, character in the Ace Attorney series Miles Hendon, character in the novel The Prince and the Pauper and its adaptations Miles Hollingsworth, character in the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation M (James Bond), character in the James Bond novels whose real name is Sir Miles Messervy Miles Lennox, character in the television series Backstage Miles Morales / Spider-Man, character from Marvel Comics Miles Mayhem, antagonist of the animated television series