Briggs
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Briggs could refer to:
- Briggs cliff, a fictional place in Fullmetal Alchemist manga
- Briggs (crater), a lunar crater
- Briggs Initiative, either of two pieces of Californian legislation sponsored by John Briggs
- Briggs Islet, Tasmania, Australia
- Briggs, Oklahoma, USA
- Briggs & Stratton, a manufacturer of air-cooled gasoline engines
- The Briggs - a punk rock band
[edit] People with the surname Briggs
- Anne Briggs, English folk singer
- Ansel Briggs, American politician
- Arthur E. Briggs, California politician
- Asa Briggs, British historian
- Barbara Briggs, American dramatist
- Barbara G. Briggs, Australian botanist
- Barry Briggs, New Zealand World Motorcycle speedway champion
- Barry Bruce-Briggs, public policy writer
- Benjamin Briggs, captain of the Mary Celeste
- Bill Briggs, American skier
- Billy Briggs, American musician
- Bobby Briggs, fictional character from Twin Peaks
- Charles Augustus Briggs, American theologian
- Charles Frederick Briggs, American journalist
- Clare Briggs, American comics artist
- David Briggs:
- David Briggs (producer) (1944-1995), American record producer
- David Briggs (composer) English organist and composer
- David Briggs (Australian musician) (born 1951), guitarist with Little River Band and Australian record producer
- Derek Briggs, Irish paleontologist
- Everett Francis Briggs, (1908-2006), American Catholic priest
- Frank A. Briggs, American politician
- Frank O. Briggs, American politician
- Frank P. Briggs, American politician
- Gary Briggs, British guitarist
- Gary Briggs (footballer), British footballer
- George N. Briggs, American politician
- Major Garland Briggs, fictional character from Twin Peaks
- Harold Briggs
- Harold Briggs (General), British general
- Harold Briggs (politician), British Conservative MP
- Henry Briggs (Australian politician)
- Henry Briggs (mathematician), English mathematician
- Hortense Briggs, fictional character from An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- Ian Briggs, television writer
- Jack Briggs, American instrument maker
- James Briggs, any of several people
- Jason W. Briggs, American Latter Day Saint leader
- Jeff Briggs, American computer games executive
- Joe Bob Briggs, pseudonym of John Irving Bloom, film critic and actor
- John Briggs (politician), a California politician
- John Briggs (author)
- Johnny Briggs:
- Johnny Briggs (cricketer)
- Johnny Briggs (actor), actor who played Mike Baldwin on the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Johnny Briggs (baseball), a former Major League Baseball outfielder
- Jon Briggs, British radio personality
- Jonny Briggs, BBC children's television programme first broadcast in 1985.
- Karen Briggs, American violinist
- Katharine Cook Briggs, co-inventor of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test
- Katharine Mary Briggs, British author
- Kevin "She'kspere" Briggs, American record producer
- Lance Briggs, American football player
- LeBaron Russell Briggs, American educator
- Lyman James Briggs, American physicist and civil servant
- Matilda Briggs, passenger on the Marie Celeste
- Matthew Briggs, English footballer
- Nicholas Briggs, British actor
- Nigel Briggs, Singer/Song writer
- Patricia Briggs, American fantasy writer
- Paul Briggs, Australian boxer
- Raymond Briggs, British illustrator and author
- Sandra Briggs, fictional character from Emmerdale
- Shannon Briggs, American boxer
- Stephen Briggs, British Discworld adapter
- Stephen Foster Briggs, American engineer, co-founder of The Briggs & Stratton Company
- Ted Briggs, British seaman
- Tom Briggs, American football player
- Walter Briggs, Major League Baseball owner