Coles is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alex Coles, Founder of Yo Po
- Arthur Coles, Australian businessman
- Bimbo Coles, American basketball player
- Cecil Coles, British composer
- Charles Coles, American tap dancer
- Charlie Coles (1942 - 2013), American basketball player and coach
- Cowper Phipps Coles, British naval captain and designer
- Cyril Henry Coles, British writer, 50% of Manning Coles
- Danny Coles, English footballer
- Dennis Coles, Ghostface Killah of the Wu-Tang Clan
- Edward Coles, American politician
- Elizabeth Coles, British novelist Elizabeth Taylor
- Fenton Coles, Welsh rugby player
- George Coles (disambiguation)
- H. Brent Coles, mayor of Boyse, Idaho
- Isaac Coles, American politician
- Kim Coles, American actress
- John Coles, English businessman
- John David Coles, American TV and film director
- L. Stephen Coles, American biogerontologist and a key member of the Supercentenarian Research Foundation
- Laveranues Coles, American football player
- Lisa Coles, American broadcaster Lisa Guerrero
- Manning Coles, pseudonymous British spy writer
- Miriam Coles Harris, author whose anonymous first novel attracted several impostors
- Nathaniel Adams Coles, American jazz musician Nat King Cole
- Neil Coles, British golfer
- Peter Coles, Professor of Astrophysics at Cardiff University
- Richard Coles, British musician
- Robert Coles, American psychiatrist, educator, author
- Walter Coles, 19th century U.S. Representative from Virginia
- William Coles Finch 20th century English author and historian
- Wayne Coles-Janess, film director