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 Aspin (1938–1995), American politician
 * Les AuCoin (born 1942), American politician
 * Les Baxter (1922–1996), American musician and composer
 * Les Besser (born 1936), American electronics engineer
 * Les Blank (1935–2013), American documentary filmmaker
 * Les Brown (bandleader) (1912–2001), American jazz musician and bandleader
 * Les Brown (speaker) (born 1945), American motivational speaker and politician
 * Les Claypool (born 1963), American rock bassist and founding member of Primus
 * Les Costello (1928–2002), Canadian ice hockey player and Catholic priest
 * Les Crane (1933–2008), American broadcaster and talk show host
 * Les Darcy (1895–1917), Australian boxer
 * Les Dawson (1931–1993), English comedian
 * Les Dennis (born 1953), English television presenter
 * Les Dodd (born 1954), English snooker player
 * Les Eaves (born c. 1967), American businessman and state legislator
 * Les Edwards (born 1949), British illustrator
 * Les Elgart (1917–1995), American jazz trumpeter and bandleader
 * Les Ferdinand (born 1966), English football coach and former player
 * Les Fradkin (born 1951), American guitarist and composer
 * Les Gleadell (1921–2009), Falkland Islands civil servant
 * Les Goble (1932–2019), American National Football League player
 * Les Gold (born 1950), American pawnbroker and media personality
 * Les Gray (1946–2004), English singer and songwriter
 * Les Green (1941–2012), English footballer and manager
 * Les Greenberg (born 1945), Canadian psychologist
 * Les Guthman, American filmmaker
 * Les Hull (born 1935), Canadian politician
 * 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 (1955–2021), Scottish pop singer, lead singer of the Bay City Rollers
 * Les Mills (born 1934), New Zealand shot putter, discus thrower and politician
 * Les Munro (1919-2015), New Zealand Air Force pilot
 * Les Palmer (American football) (1923–2006), American National Football League player
 * Les Paul, stage name of American jazz guitarist and inventor Lester William Polsfuss (1915–2009)
 * Les Podervianskyi (born 1952), Ukrainian painter, poet, playwright and performer
 * Les Reed (footballer) (1932–2021), Australian rules footballer
 * Les Reed (football coach) (born 1952), English football coach and manager
 * Les Reed (songwriter) (1935–2019), 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, a fictional character in Coronation Street
 * Les Nessman, a fictional character in WKRP in Cincinnati
 * Les, a fictional character in the Bring It On film series
 * Les, a fictional character in Newsies
 * Les, a fictional character in The Search for One-eye Jimmy
 * Lifesaver Les, a fictional character in Pizza (TV series)