Hughes may refer to:

People

Hughes (surname) Hughes is an English language surname. Origins Hughes is an Anglicized spelling of the Welsh and Irish patronymic surname. The surname may also derive from the etymologically unrelated Picard variant Hugh (Old French ''Hue'') of the Germ ...

Hughes (given name) Hughes is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Hughes Cleaver (1892–1980), Canadian politician * Hughes Eng, Canadian community activist * Hughes Rudd (1921–1992), American television journalist and news corresponden ...

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 Secre ...

, Oates Land *

Hughes Basin Hughes Basin () is a large basinlike névé in the Britannia Range of Antarctica which is bounded except to the south by the Ravens Mountains, Mount Henderson, Mount Olympus and Mount Quackenbush. The feature is long and the ice surface descen ...

, Oates Land * Hughes Bay, Graham Land *

Hughes Bluff Hughes Bluff is a conspicuous rock and ice bluff, high, along the south side of David Glacier, west of Cape Reynolds, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy tricamera aerial ...

, Victoria Land * Hughes Glacier, Victoria Land * Hughes Island, Victoria Land *

Hughes Peninsula Hughes Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula about long, lying west of Henry Inlet on the north side of Thurston Island, Antarctica. At the northeast end of the peninsula is ice-covered Cape Davies. These features were plotted from air phot ...

, Ellsworth Land *

Hughes Point Hughes Point () is a steep rock point on the west side of the terminus of Exum Glacier, in the Jones Mountains of Antarctica. It was mapped by the University of Minnesota Jones Mountains Party, 1960–61, and named by them for Wayne B. Hughes, As ...

, Ellsworth Land

Australia

Division of Hughes The Division of Hughes is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. History The division was created in 1955 and is named for Billy Hughes, who was Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923. Originally a marginal L ...

, 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 Hughes ( in Koyukon) is a city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 85 at the 2020 census, up from 77 in 2010. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it l ...

, a city * Hughes, Arkansas, a city * Hughes, Iowa, a ghost town *

Hughes, Wisconsin Hughes is a town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 383 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated communities of Muskeg and Wills are located in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town ...

, a town *

Hughes County, Oklahoma Hughes County is a county located in south central U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 14,003. Its county seat is Holdenville. The county was named for W. C. Hughes, an Oklahoma City lawyer who was a member of th ...

Hughes County, South Dakota Hughes County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 17,765, making it the least populous capital county in the nation, and the List of counties in South Dak ...

* Hughes Lake (California) *

Hughes Mountain Hughes Mountain and the Hughes Mountain State Natural Area are located in southern Washington County, Missouri (Sections 28 and 33, T36N R3E) just south of the Big River and Highway M on Cedar Creek Road in the St. Francois Mountains range of ...

, Missouri *

Hughes River (Virginia) The Hughes River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed April 1, 2011 river in Madison, Rappahannock, and Culpeper counties in the U.S. state of Virginia. The river rise ...

Hughes River (West Virginia) The Hughes River is a tributary of the Little Kanawha River in western West Virginia in the United States. Via the Little Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. As measured from the confluence of its ...

Other

* Hughes, Santa Fe, Argentina, a town *

Hughes Range (British Columbia) The Hughes Range is a subrange of the Kootenay Ranges, located between the Bull and White rivers in the Kootenay Land District, British Columbia, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten ...

, Canada *

Hughes Reef Hughes Reef (Mandarin , vi, đá Tư Nghĩa) is a reef in Union Banks in the Spratly group of islands, South China Sea claimed by the PRC (China), the ROC (Taiwan), the Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam. It is only above water at low tide. ...

, 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

Baker Hughes Baker Hughes Company, organized in Delaware and headquartered in Houston, is one of the world's largest oil field services companies. The company provides products and services for oil well drilling, formation evaluation, completion, productio ...

, an industrial services company *

Howard Hughes Corporation The Howard Hughes Corporation is a real estate development and management company based in The Woodlands, Texas. It was formed in 2010 as a spin-off from General Growth Properties (GGP). Most of its holdings are focused on several master-planne ...

, a real estate developer *

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 pro ...

, a former major American aerospace and defense contractor founded by Howard Hughes, acquired by General Motors in 1985 *

Hughes Electronics Hughes Electronics Corporation was formed in 1985 when Hughes Aircraft was sold by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to General Motors for $5.2 billion. The surviving parts of Hughes Electronics are today known as The DirecTV Group. On June 5, ...

, created from a merger by General Motors *

Hughes Communications Hughes Network Systems, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar. It is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland and provides satellite internet service. HughesNet has over 1.3 million subscribers in the Americas. History Hughes Communications ...

, a provider of satellite-based communications services * Hughes Dynamics, 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 Heli ...

, a major manufacturer of military and civil helicopters from the 1950s to the 1980s, initially part of Hughes Aircraft *

Hughes Network Systems Hughes Network Systems, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar. It is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland and provides satellite internet service. HughesNet has over 1.3 million subscribers in the Americas. History Hughes Communications ...

, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Communications * Hughes Software Systems, 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 HTN Communications, better known as Hughes Television Network (HTN) and formerly Sports Network, was an American television network created by Richard Eugene Bailey. The company is now in the business of providing video and audio services to spo ...

, a defunct American television network *

Hughes Tool Company Hughes Tool Company was an American manufacturer of drill bits. Founded in 1908, it was merged into Baker Hughes Incorporated in 1987. History The company was established in December 1908 as Sharp-Hughes Tool Company when Howard R. Hughes Sr ...

, purchased by Howard Hughes, Sr., later owned by his son Howard Hughes *

Summa Corporation Summa Corporation was a holding company for the business interests of Howard Hughes after he sold the tool division of Hughes Tool Company in 1972. Its holdings included casino hotels, aviation businesses, and television channels. After Hughes's d ...

, later named Howard Hughes Corporation, a holding company for Howard Hughes's business interests

Airports

Hughes Airport (Alaska) Hughes Airport is a state-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) southwest of the central business district of Hughes, a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. As per Federal Aviation Ad ...

Hughes Airport (California) The Hughes Airport was a private airport owned by Howard Hughes for the Hughes Aircraft Company. It was located just north of the Westchester bluffs and district of Los Angeles, California, from 1940 until its closure in 1985. It was directl ...

In the military

* , a World War II US Navy destroyer *

Fort Hughes Fort Hughes was built by the Philippine Department of the U.S. Army on Caballo Island in the Philippines in the early 1900s. The fort, which part of the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays, was named for Major General Robert Patterson H ...

, 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 aircraf ...

, Northern Territory, Australia, a Second World War airfield

In education

Hughes Hall, Cambridge Hughes Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. It is the oldest of the University of Cambridge's postgraduate colleges. The college also admits undergraduates, though undergraduates admitted by the college must ...

, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, informally called Hughes * Hughes School District, Hughes, Arkansas * Hughes High School (disambiguation), 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 The Hughes Medal is awarded by the Royal Society of London "in recognition of an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications". Named after David E. Hughes, the medal is awarded with ...

, 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)