Higgs

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Higgs may refer to:

Physics

• Higgs boson, an elementary particle
• Higgs mechanism, an explanation for electroweak symmetry breaking
• Higgs field, a quantum field

People

• Alan Higgs (died 1979), English businessman and philanthropist
• Derek Higgs (1944–2008), an English business leader and merchant banker
• Eric Sidney Higgs (1908–1976), English archaeologist
• Griffin Higgs (1589–1659), an English churchman
• Henry Higgs (1864–1940), English civil servant, economist and historian of economic thought
• Joe Higgs (1940–1999), Jamaican singer and musician
• Ken Higgs (born 1937), English cricketer
• Kenneth Higgs (1886-1959), English cricketer
• Kenny Higgs (born 1955), American retired basketball player, brother of Mark Higgs
• Mark Higgs (born 1966), American football player who played in the National Football League, brother of Kenny Higgs
• Michael Higgs (politician) (1912–1995), British Member of Parliament
• Peter Higgs (born 1929), physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, namesake of the Higgs boson particle
• Ray Higgs, Australian rugby league footballer
• Rebekah Higgs (born 1982), Canadian singer
• Robert Higgs (born 1944), American economist
• Robert W. Higgs, South African admiral
• Shane Higgs (born 1977), English footballer

Fiction

• Higgs, narrator in the 1872 novel Erewhon by Samuel Butler
• John Higgs, a silent character in The Archers on BBC Radio 4