Alexander Miles MD, LL.D, FRCSEd (21 May 1865 – 9 April 1953) was a Scottish surgeon who worked at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

being awarded a gold medal for his thesis and winning the Syme Surgical Fellowship from the University of Edinburgh.

He was house surgeon in the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and progressed to clinical tutor.

[4][5] He was Secretary and Treasurer of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and was elected its President in 1927.

[12] His interest in surgical history led to other books of which The Edinburgh School of Surgery before Lister, was the best known.

He had written earlier chapters but Miles and Arthur Logan Turner completed the task, and, in 1926, published The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; historical notes from 1505 to 1905 under Creswell's name.

[14] As well as contributing many papers to the surgical literature he was joint editor of the Edinburgh Medical Journal from 1911 to 1935.