Higgs may refer to:

Physics

Higgs boson The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. In the Stand ...

, an elementary particle *

Higgs mechanism In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, all bosons (one of the two classes of particles, the other bein ...

, an explanation for electroweak symmetry breaking *

Higgs field The Higgs boson, sometimes called the Higgs particle, is an elementary particle in the Standard Model of particle physics produced by the quantum excitation of the Higgs field, one of the fields in particle physics theory. In the Stand ...

, a quantum field

People

Alan Higgs Alan Edward Higgs was a businessman who became a multimillionaire mainly from his house building business in Coventry, as well as from other businesses in Birmingham, England. He died in 1979, and because he thought that inherited wealth did more h ...

(died 1979), English businessman and philanthropist *

Blaine Higgs Blaine Myron Higgs (born March 1, 1954) is a Canadian politician who is the 34th and current premier of New Brunswick since 2018 and leader of the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative Party (PC Party) since 2016. Higgs graduated from the U ...

(born 1954), Canadian politician; Premier of New Brunswick *

Denis Higgs Denis A. Higgs ( – ) was a British mathematician, Doctor of Mathematics, and professor of mathematics who specialised in combinatorics, universal algebra, and category theory. He wrote one of the most influential papers in category theory ...

(1929–2011), English mathematician *

Derek Higgs Sir Derek Alan Higgs (3 April 1944 – 28 April 2008) was an English businessman and merchant banker. He was knighted in 2004. His father, Alan Higgs, was a multimillionaire through property businesses in the Midlands. Early life Sir Derek was ...

(1944–2008), an English business leader and merchant banker *

Dustin Higgs Dustin John Higgs (March 10, 1972 – January 16, 2021) was an American man who was executed by the United States federal government, having been convicted and sentenced to death in 2000 for his role in the January 1996 murders of three women in ...

(1972–2021), American convicted murderer *

Eric Sidney Higgs Eric Sidney Higgs (1908–1976) was the founder of the "Cambridge Palaeoeconomy School", which focused on the economic aspects of archaeology. His name is closely connected with a process known as "Site Catchment Analysis". Life on a farm Eric H ...

(1908–1976), English archaeologist *

George Higgs George Higgs (March 9, 1930 – January 29, 2013) was an American Piedmont blues acoustic guitarist, harmonicist, singer and songwriter. He recorded three albums in his lifetime, although he spent over sixty years performing regularly, mainly ...

(1930–2013), American Piedmont blues musician * Griffin Higgs (1589–1659), an English churchman *

Henry Higgs Henry Higgs (4 March 1864 – 21 May 1940) was a British civil servant, economist, and historian of economic thought. Higgs joined the War Office as a Lower Division Clerk in 1882. From there he moved to the Postmaster General's Office in 1884 whe ...

(1864–1940), English civil servant, economist and historian of economic thought *Henry Marcellus Higgs (also known as H.M. Higgs) (1855–1929), an English composer and music arranger *

Joe Higgs Joseph Benjamin Higgs (3 June 1940 – 18 December 1999) was a reggae musician from Jamaica. In the late 1950s and 1960s he was part of the duo Higgs and Wilson together with Roy Wilson. He was a popular artist in Jamaica for four decades and is ...

(1940–1999), Jamaican singer and musician *

John Higgs John Higgs is an English writer, novelist, journalist and cultural historian. The work of Higgs has been published in the form of novels (under the pseudonym JMR Higgs), biographies and works of cultural history. In particular, Higgs has writt ...

, English writer, novelist, journalist *

Ken Higgs Kenneth Higgs (14 January 1937 – 7 September 2016) was an English fast-medium bowler, who was most successful as the opening partner to Brian Statham with Lancashire in the 1960s. He later played with success for Leicestershire. Cricket wr ...

(1937–2016), English cricketer *

Kenneth Higgs Kenneth Alan Higgs (5 October 1886 – 21 January 1959) was an English first-class cricketer active in the 1920s who made over forty appearances for Sussex. Born at Haywards Heath, Sussex, Higgs was a right-handed batsman. He was known as "the ...

(1886–1959), English cricketer *

Kenny Higgs Kenneth Lee Higgs Jr. (born January 31, 1955) is an American former professional basketball player who played three seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Cleveland Cavaliers and Denver Nuggets. He is a 6'0" (183 cm) 180 ...

(born 1955), American retired basketball player, brother of Mark Higgs *

Mark Higgs Mark Deyon Higgs (born April 11, 1966 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals. He was drafted in the 8 ...

(born 1966), American football player who played in the National Football League, brother of Kenny Higgs *

Michael Higgs (politician) Sir John Michael Clifford Higgs DL (30 May 1912 – 20 October 1995) was a solicitor from Brierley Hill who served as the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bromsgrove from 1950 to 1955. Early life and family The son of Albert W. H ...

(1912–1995), British Member of Parliament *

Peter Higgs Peter Ware Higgs (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, Emeritus Professor in the University of Edinburgh,Griggs, Jessica (Summer 2008The Missing Piece ''Edit'' the University of Edinburgh Alumni Magazine, p. 17 and Nobel Prize ...

(born 1929), physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, namesake of the Higgs boson particle *

Ray Higgs Ray Higgs (born 1950) is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s. An Australian international and Queensland representative forward, he played club football in the NSWRFL Premiership with Sydney's Parramatta Eels f ...

, Australian rugby league footballer *

Rebekah Higgs Rebekah Higgs (born May 19, 1982) is a Canadian indie rock singer, songwriter from Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2017 Rebekah founded Matriarch productions a production company that produces the TV show DIY MOM. Rebekah is the designer and star of ...

(born 1982), Canadian singer *

Robert Higgs Robert Higgs (born 1 February 1944) is an American economic historian and economist combining material from Public Choice, the New institutional economics, and the Austrian school of economics; and describes himself as a " libertarian anarchis ...

(born 1944), American economist * Robert W. Higgs, South African admiral *

Shane Higgs Shane Peter Higgs (born 13 May 1977) is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He made 306 appearances in the Football League and Football Conference between 1996 and 2012, most notably spending ten years at Chelte ...

(born 1977), English footballer

Fiction

*Higgs, narrator in the 1872 novel ''

Erewhon ''Erewhon: or, Over the Range'' () is a novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published anonymously in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society. The firs ...

'' 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 ''Death Stranding'' is a 2019 action game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. It is the first game from director Hideo Kojima and Kojima Productions after their split from Kona ...

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