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Miles Corbet (1595–1662) was an English politician, recorder of Yarmouth and a regicide of King Charles I.
Miles succeeded his brother John as MP for Yarmouth, England, serving from 1640 to 1653, and was a Signature of the death warrant of Charles I.
In 1644, he was made clerk of the Court of Wards. In 1649, Oliver Cromwell granted the estate of Malahide Castle to Corbet after the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland. In 1655, Corbet was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.
After the restoration of King Charles II in 1660, the castle was returned to its ancestral owners. All the 59 men who had signed the death warrant of Charles I were in grave danger of severe punishment because they were considered . Miles Corbet, like many of them, fled England. He went to the Netherlands where he thought he would be safe. However, along with two other regicides, John Okey and John Barkstead, he was arrested by the English ambassador to the Netherlands, Sir George Downing, and returned to England under guard. After a trial, Corbet was found guilty, and executed on 19 April 1662. In his dying speech he said:
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