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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 (1937–2016), 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
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