Diocles
# Diocles

Diocles may refer to:

## People

* Diocles (mathematician) (c. 240 BC–c. 180 BC), Greek mathematician and geometer
* Diocles (mythology), one of the first priests of Demeter
* Diocles of Carystus (4th century BC), also known as Diocles Medicus, Greek physician
* Diocles of Cnidus (3rd or 2nd century BC), Greek philosopher who wrote a work quoted by Eusebius
* Diocles of Corinth, winner of the stadion race of the 13th Olympic Games in 728 BC
* Diocles of Magnesia (2nd or 1st century BC), Greek writer on ancient philosophers quoted many times by Diogenes Laertius
* Diocles of Megara, ancient Greek warrior from Athens
* Diocles of Messenia, winner of the stadion race of the 7th Olympic Games in 752 BC
* Diocles of Peparethus (3rd century BC), Greek historian
* Diocles of Phlius (fl. c. 400 BC), comic poet
* Diocles of Syracuse (fl. 413–408 BC), Greek lawgiver in the city-state of Syracuse
* Diocletian (244–311), Roman emperor formerly named Diocles
* Diocles (1st century BC), or Tyrannion the Younger
* Gaius Appuleius Diocles (104–after 146 AD), Roman charioteer

## Other

* Diocles laser, a laser that uses Chirped pulse amplification at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
