Les (given name)
Les is a given name, usually short for Lester or Leslie. Les may refer to:
People:
- Les Baxter, American musician and composer
- Les Blank, American documentary filmmaker
- Les Brown , leader of Les Brown and the Band of Renown
- Les Claypool, American bassist and founding member of Primus
- Les Costello, Canadian ice hockey player and Catholic priest
- Les Dawson, English comedian
- Les Eaves, American businessman and state legislator
- Les Edwards, British illustrator
- Les Ferdinand, English football coach and former player
- Les Gleadell, Falkland Islands civil servant.
- Les Goble, American National Football League player
- Les Kaufman, evolutionary ecologist, Professor of Biology at Boston University
- Les McCann, American soul jazz and R&B pianist and vocalist
- Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer, lead singer of the Bay City Rollers
- Les Mills, New Zealand shot putter, discus thrower and politician
- Les Palmer, American National Football League player
- Les Paul, stage name of American jazz guitarist and inventor Lester William Polsfuss
- Les Peach, Australian didgeridooist
- Les Reed , Australian rules footballer
- Les Reed , English football coach and manager
- Les Reed , English songwriter, arranger, musician and light orchestra leader
- Les Shannon, English football player and manager
- Les Stroud, Canadian filmmaker and survival expert, creator, writer, producer, director, cameraman and host of the television series Survivorman
- Les Tanyuk, Ukrainian theatre and film director, dissident and politician
- Les Tremayne, 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
