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 Ger ...

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 correspondent * ...

Places

Antarctica

Hughes Range (Antarctica) The Hughes Range is a high massive north–south trending mountain range in Antarctica, surmounted by six prominent summits, of which Mount Kaplan (4,230 m) is the highest. The range is located east of Canyon Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains an ...

, Ross Dependency * Mount Hughes, 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 descends ...

, Oates Land *

Hughes Bay Hughes Bay is a bay lying between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is wide and lies south of Chavdar Peninsula and north of Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula, indenting the Danco Coast on the west si ...

, 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 Hughes is a suburb in the Canberra, Australia district of Woden. The postcode is 2605. The area of the suburb is 1.81 km2. History Hughes is named after The Right Honourable William Morris "Billy" Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Aus ...

, a suburb of Canberra * Hughes, Northern Territory, 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 Hughes is a city in St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 1,441 at the 2010 census, a decline from 1,867 in 2000. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land ...

, 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 tow ...

, 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 the ...

Hughes County, South Dakota Hughes County is a 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 twelfth-most populous county in South Dakota. Its ...

Hughes Lake (California) Hughes Lake is a sag pond on the San Andreas Fault in the northern Sierra Pelona Mountains, in Los Angeles County, California. Geography Referred to before 1924 as West Elizabeth Lake, Lake Hughes is one of a series of sag ponds in the foothill ...

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 ten provinces and three territories exte ...

, Canada * Hughes Reef, South China Sea * 1878 Hughes, an asteroid

Businesses

* Hughes Aircraft Company, a former major American aerospace and defense contractor founded by Howard Hughes *

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, 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 {{unreferenced, date=August 2015 Hughes Supply Incorporated was a very large wholesaler of construction supplies operating in 40 of the United States and two Canadian provinces. In January 2006, Home Depot announced that it was acquiring Hughes Sup ...

, a former wholesaler of construction supplies in the US and Canada, acquired by Home Depot in 2006 *

Hughes Systique Corporation Hughes Systique Corporation, (HSC) is a provider of software R&D services. As part of its R&D services, HSC provides Technology Consulting, System Architecture design, Software development, Maintenance and Testing services to Multimedia, Consumer ...

, 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

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 A ...

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 directly ...

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 Hu ...

, a former part of the harbor defenses of Manila and Subic Bays in the Philippines * Hughes Airfield, 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 b ...

, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, informally called Hughes *

Hughes School District Hughes School District 27 was a public school district based in Hughes, Arkansas, United States until it closed in Summer 2015 due to declining enrollment. The school district encompassed of land in St. Francis County and Crittenden County. It ...

, 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 Hughes STEM High School is a public high school located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is part of the Ci ...

, several US schools *

Hughes Middle School (disambiguation) Hughes Middle School is the name of many 4 year middle schools, including: *Hughes Middle School (Long Beach, California) The Long Beach Unified School District is a school district headquartered in Long Beach, California, United States. Est ...

, several US schools *

Hughes School Hughes School is a historic school building near Hamilton, Ohio, United States. Description and history Historically a one-room school, the rectangular brick building rests on a stone foundation. The gabled roof has corbeled cornices and the doub ...

, 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 There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Hughes, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. One creation is extant as of 2008. The Hughes Baronetcy, of East Bergholt in th ...

, two baronetcies, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain (extant) and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom (extinct)