Higgs

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Higgs may refer to:

Physics

  • Higgs boson, an elementary particle
  • Higgs factory, a proposed particle accelerator
  • Higgs field, a quantum field
  • Higgs field (classical)
  • Higgs mechanism, an explanation for electroweak symmetry breaking
  • Higgs phase
  • Higgs sector

Mathematics

  • Higgs bundle, a vector bundle
  • Higgs prime, a class of prime numbers

People

  • Alan Higgs (died 1979), English businessman and philanthropist
  • Alf Higgs (born 1904), Welsh rugby league footballer
  • Alfred Higgs (athlete) (born 1991), Bahamian sprinter
  • Amanda Higgs, Australian television producer, writer and executive
  • Anna Higgs, English film producer
  • Avis Higgs (1918–2016), New Zealand textile designer and painter
  • Blaine Higgs (born 1954), Canadian politician; Premier of New Brunswick
  • Blake Alphonso Higgs (1915–1986), Bahamian singer and musician
  • Cecil Higgs (1898–1986), South African artist
  • Colleen Higgs (born 1962), South African writer and publisher
  • David Higgs, American organist
  • Denis Higgs (1929–2011), English mathematician
  • Derek Higgs (1944–2008), English business leader and merchant banker, son of Alan Higgs
  • Douglas Higgs (born 1951), British haematologist
  • Dustin Higgs (1972–2021), American convicted murderer
  • Eric Higgs (disambiguation), various people
  • George Higgs (1930–2013), American Piedmont blues musician
  • Godfrey Higgs (1907–1986), Bahamian sailor
  • Griffin Higgs (1589–1659), English churchman
  • Harry Higgs (born 1991), American golfer
  • Helen Burns Higgs (1897–1983), Bahamian writer, journalist and botanical illustrator
  • Henry Higgs (1864–1940), English civil servant, economist and historian of economic thought
  • Henry Marcellus Higgs (also known as H.M. Higgs) (1855–1929), English composer and music arranger
  • Hubert Higgs (1911–1992), Anglican Bishop of Hull
  • Jake Higgs (born 1975), Canadian curler
  • James Higgs (1829–1902), English organist and teacher, uncle of Henry Marcellus Higgs
  • Jess Higgs (born 1989), Australian singer also known as George Maple
  • Jim Higgs (born 1950), Australian former cricketer
  • Joe Higgs (1940–1999), Jamaican singer and musician
  • John Higgs (born 1970s), English writer, novelist, journalist
  • Jonathan Higgs (born 1985), English singer-songwriter and musician
  • Ken Higgs (1937–2016), English cricketer
  • Ken Higgs (Canadian football) (1930–2002), Canadian football player
  • Kenneth Higgs (1886–1959), English cricketer
  • Kenny Higgs (born 1955), American retired basketball player, brother of Mark Higgs
  • Lesley Higgs (born 1965), English footballer
  • Mark Higgs (born 1966), American football player who played in the National Football League, brother of Kenny Higgs
  • Mark Higgs (cricketer) (born 1976), Australian cricketer
  • Mary Higgs (1854–1937), British writer and social reformer
  • Matthew Higgs (born 1964), English artist, curator, writer and publisher
  • Michael Higgs (born 1962), English actor
  • Michael Higgs (politician) (1912–1995), British Member of Parliament
  • Mike Higgs, British comic book artist, writer, designer, and editor
  • Montague Higgs (1939–2006), Bahamian sailor
  • Nate Higgs (born 1970), American/Spanish basketball player and coach
  • Nick Higgs, English businessman and football club chairman
  • Peter Higgs (1929–2024), British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, namesake of the Higgs boson particle
  • Ray Higgs (born 1950), Australian rugby league footballer
  • Raymond Higgs (born 1991), Bahamian long jumper
  • Rebekah Higgs (born 1982), Canadian singer
  • Robert Higgs (born 1944), American economist
  • Robert W. Higgs (born 1957), South African admiral
  • Russell Shaw Higgs (born 1960), British artist and political activist
  • Shane Higgs (born 1977), English footballer
  • Suzanne Higgs, English psychologist
  • Teddy Higgs (died 1950), British tennis player
  • Tracy Higgs (born 1970), British psychic and television personality
  • Walter Higgs (1886–1961), British Member of Parliament
  • William Higgs (disambiguation), various people

Fiction

  • Higgs, narrator in the 1872 novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler
  • John Higgs, a silent character in The Archers on BBC Radio 4
  • Higgs Monaghan, an antagonist in Hideo Kojima's 2019 video game Death Stranding
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