Higgs

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