Les (given name)

Les is a given name, usually short for Lester or Leslie. Also, a romanization of Ukrainian name Лесь [ˈlɛsʲ]. Les may refer to:

People:

• Les Baxter (1922–1996), American musician and composer
• Les Blank (1935-2013), American documentary filmmaker
• Les Brown (bandleader) (1912–2001), leader of Les Brown and the Band of Renown
• Les Claypool (born 1963), American bassist and founding member of Primus
• Les Costello (1928–2002), Canadian ice hockey player and Catholic priest
• Les Dodd (born 1954), professional snooker player
• Les Dawson (1931–1993), English comedian
• Les Eaves (born c. 1967), American businessman and state legislator
• Les Edwards (born 1949), British illustrator
• Les Ferdinand (born 1966), English football coach and former player
• Les Gleadell (1921-2009), Falkland Islands civil servant.
• Les Goble (born 1932), American National Football League player
• Les Humphries (born 1940), Founder of the Les Humphries Singers
• Les Kaufman, evolutionary ecologist, Professor of Biology at Boston University
• Les Kurbas (1887-1937), Ukrainian movie and theater director. Considered to be one of the lead figures of the Executed Renaissance
• Les McCann (born 1935), American soul jazz and R&B pianist and vocalist
• Les McKeown (born 1955), Scottish pop singer, lead singer of the Bay City Rollers
• Les Mills (born 1934), New Zealand shot putter, discus thrower and politician
• Les Palmer (1923–2006), American National Football League player
• Les Paul, stage name of American jazz guitarist and inventor Lester William Polsfuss (1915–2009)
• Les Peach, Australian didgeridooist
• Les Podervianskyi (born 1952), Ukrainian painter, poet, playwright and performer
• Les Reed (footballer) (born 1932), Australian rules footballer
• Les Reed (football coach) (born 1952), English football coach and manager
• Les Reed (songwriter) (born 1935), English songwriter, arranger, musician and light orchestra leader
• Les Serdyuk (1940-2010), Soviet and Ukrainian theater and film actor
• Les Shannon (1926–2007), English football player and manager
• Les Stroud (born 1961), Canadian filmmaker and survival expert, creator, writer, producer, director, cameraman and host of the television series Survivorman
• Les Tanyuk (1938-2016), Ukrainian theater and film director, dissident and politician
• Les Tremayne (1913–2003), British radio, film, and television actor

Fictional characters:

• Les Battersby, fictional Coronation Street character
• Les, fictional character from the play, and movie, Newsies
• Les, a fictional character from the movies Bring It On
• Lifesaver Les, a minor character from Pizza (TV series)