Daniel Alan Byles FRGS (born 24 June 1974[1]) is a former British politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for North Warwickshire from 2010 to 2015.

Byles was born in Hastings, East Sussex, but spent his early childhood as an expatriate in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia before returning to England at age nine to the Cotswold market town of Chipping Norton.

In 1995 Byles and his mother Janice Meek rowed 3,044 nautical miles (5,637 km) from Tenerife to Barbados; it took 100 days, 18 hours and 57 minutes.

[6] On 8 March 2007, Byles was selected as the Conservative Party's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the North Warwickshire constituency at the 2010 general election.

He gave his maiden speech in the Commons on Thursday 3 June 2010 when he spoke about Nicholas Chamberlaine, the Atherstone Ball Game, and his intention to campaign for better rehabilitation and mental health care for military veterans and reservists.