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. ), 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 (bug), a genus of bugs in the family Coreidae
  • Diocles laser, a laser that uses Chirped pulse amplification at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln