Hughes may refer to:

People

* Hughes (surname) * Hughes (given name)

Places

Antarctica

* Hughes Range (Antarctica), Ross Dependency *

Mount Hughes Mount Hughes () is a mountain, high, midway between Mount Longhurst and Tentacle Ridge in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901–04) and named for J.F. Hughes, an Honorary Secret ...

, Oates Land * Hughes Basin, Oates Land * Hughes Bay, Graham Land * Hughes Bluff, Victoria Land *

Hughes Glacier Hughes Glacier () is a small alpine glacier flowing toward Lake Bonney in Taylor Valley from the Kukri Hills on the south, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the Western Geological Party led by Thomas Griffith Taylor of the British A ...

, Victoria Land *

Hughes Island Hughes Island is a small ice-covered island, the easternmost of the Lyall Islands, lying just to the east of the entrance to Yule Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. This island, along with many other islands within the same geographical bay, was fir ...

, Victoria Land * Hughes Peninsula, Ellsworth Land * Hughes Point, Ellsworth Land

Australia

* Division of Hughes, an electoral district * Hughes, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra *

Hughes, Northern Territory Hughes is an outer rural locality of Darwin, located approximately south-west of the city in the Litchfield Municipality. The name of the locality derived from Hughes Airfield constructed in the area during the Second World War. The airfield i ...

, a rural locality

United States

* Hughes, Alaska, a city * Hughes, Arkansas, a city *

Hughes, Iowa Hughes is a ghost town in Hardin County, in the U.S. state of Iowa Iowa () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It i ...

, a ghost town * Hughes, Wisconsin, a town * Hughes County, Oklahoma * Hughes County, South Dakota * Hughes Lake (California) * Hughes Mountain, Missouri * Hughes River (Virginia) * Hughes River (West Virginia)

Other

* Hughes, Santa Fe, Argentina, a town * Hughes Range (British Columbia), Canada *

Hughes Reef Hughes Reef (Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin , vi, đá Tư Nghĩa) is a reef in Union Banks in the Spratly Islands, Spratly group of islands, South China Sea claimed by the China, PRC (China), the Taiwan, ROC (Taiwan), the Philippines, Malaysia, and ...

, South China Sea *

1878 Hughes Events January–March * January 5 – Russo-Turkish War – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire. * January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. * January 17 – Battle o ...

, an asteroid

Businesses

Hughes Aircraft Company The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California, as a division of Hughes Tool Company. The company was known for producing, among other produ ...

, a former major American aerospace and defense contractor founded by Howard Hughes * Hughes Electronics, created from a merger by General Motors * Hughes Communications, a provider of satellite-based communications services *

Hughes Dynamics Hughes Dynamics, Inc. was an American computer firm that was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Hughes Tool Company. It existed from 1962 to around 1965. It offered consulting and services in data processing, information technology, credit informati ...

, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Tool in the computer services business in the early 1960s *

Hughes Helicopters Hughes Helicopters was a major manufacturer of military and civil helicopters from the 1950s to the 1980s. The company began in 1947, as a unit of Hughes Aircraft, then was part of the Hughes Tool Company after 1955. It became the Hughes Helic ...

, a major manufacturer of military and civil helicopters from the 1950s to the 1980s, initially part of Hughes Aircraft * Hughes Network Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications *

Hughes Software Systems Aricent was a global design and engineering services company. It was acquired by French-based company Altran in 2018 and renamed Altran North America in April 2019 and Altran Americas in early 2020. With Altran's acquisition by Capgemini, the ...

, established in New Delhi, India, in 1991, acquired by Flextronics in 2004 * Hughes Supply, a former wholesaler of construction supplies in the US and Canada, acquired by Home Depot in 2006 * Hughes Systique Corporation, an American provider of software R&D services * Hughes Television Network, a defunct American television network * Hughes Tool Company, purchased by Howard Hughes, Sr., later owned by his son Howard Hughes

Airports

* Hughes Airport (Alaska) * Hughes Airport (California)

In the military

* , a World War II US Navy destroyer * Fort Hughes, a former part of the harbor defenses of Manila and Subic Bays in the Philippines *

Hughes Airfield Hughes Airfield (32 Mile) is an airfield in the Northern Territory of Australia located in the locality of Hughes. It was constructed during World War II for military use. The airfield now functions as a base for aerial firefighting aircraft t ...

, Northern Territory, Australia, a Second World War airfield

In education

* Hughes Hall, Cambridge, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, informally called Hughes * Hughes School District, Hughes, Arkansas *

Hughes High School (disambiguation) Hughes High School may refer to: * Hughes High School, Hughes, Arkansas *Langston Hughes High School, Fairborn, Georgia *Hughes Center High School, Cincinnati, Ohio See also *Hughes Springs High School Hughes Springs High School is a public high ...

, several US schools * Hughes Middle School (disambiguation), several US schools * Hughes School, near Hamilton, Ohio, on the National Register of Historic Places

Other uses

* Hughes Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of London for an "original discovery in the physical sciences" * Hughes baronets, two baronetcies, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain (extant) and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom (extinct)