Samuel Barrett Miles

Samuel Barrett Miles
Photograph from the frontispiece of The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf
Born(1838-10-02)2 October 1838
Died28 August 1914(1914-08-28) (aged 75)
NationalityBritish
OccupationArmy officer
Known forEthnographic and historical writings on Oman

Samuel Barrett Miles (2 October 1838 – 28 August 1914) was a British Army officer who served as a diplomat in various Arabic-speaking countries, notably Oman, which he came to know better than any other European of the time. The notes that he made were published after his death as The Countries and Tribes of the Persian Gulf.