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- Alan HiggsAlan HiggsAlan Edward Higgs was a successful self-made businessman who became a multimillionaire mainly from his house building business in Coventry, as well as from other businesses in Birmingham, England...
, English businessman and philanthropist - Sir Derek HiggsDerek HiggsSir Derek Alan Higgs 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:...
, an English business leader and merchant banker - Eric Sidney HiggsEric Sidney HiggsEric Sidney Higgs He was the founder of the Cambridge Palaeoeconomy School, a school of thought that focused on the economic aspects of archaeology. His name is closely connected with the "Site catchment Analysis"....
, English archaeologist - Griffin HiggsGriffin HiggsGriffin or Griffith Higgs was an English chuchman, the dean of Lichfield from 1638.-Life:Higgs was born at South Stoke, Oxfordshire, the second son of Griffith Higgs by Sarah, daughter of Robert Paine of Caversham in the same county. After attending Reading school he entered St...
- Henry HiggsHenry HiggsHenry Higgs 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 when he also began taking courses at University College, London. He received an LLB...
(1864 - 1940) English civil servant, economist and historian of economic thought - Joe HiggsJoe HiggsJoe Higgs 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...
, Jamaican singer and musician - John Higgs, Jack Woolley's chauffeur and handyman in BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
's daily soap The ArchersThe ArchersThe Archers is a long-running British soap opera broadcast on the BBC's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. It was originally billed as "an everyday story of country folk", but is now described on its Radio 4 web site as "contemporary drama in a rural setting"... - Ken HiggsKen HiggsFor the American basketball player, see Kenny Higgs.Ken Higgs was an English fast-medium bowler, who was most successful as the opening partner to Brian Statham with Lancashire in the 1960s...
, English cricketer - Peter HiggsPeter HiggsPeter Ware Higgs, FRS, FRSE, FKC , is an English theoretical physicist and an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh....
, physicist- Higgs mechanismHiggs mechanismIn particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is the process in which gauge bosons in a gauge theory can acquire non-vanishing masses through absorption of Nambu-Goldstone bosons arising in spontaneous symmetry breaking....
, an explanation for electroweak symmetry breaking named for Peter Higgs - Higgs bosonHiggs bosonThe Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive elementary particle that is predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. Its existence is postulated as a means of resolving inconsistencies in the Standard Model...
, a hypothetical elementary particle arising from the Higgs mechanism
- Higgs mechanism
- Ray HiggsRay HiggsRay Higgs is an Australian former rugby league footballer of the 1970s. An Australian international and Queensland representative forward, he played club football for the Parramatta Eels and Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles in the New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership.Originally from Roma,...
, Australian rugby league footballer - Rebekah HiggsRebekah HiggsRebekah Higgs is a Canadian indie rock singer, songwriter from Halifax, Nova Scotia. She released her debut self-titled album in September 2006, recorded in Toronto with producer Thomas Payne of the Canadian band Joydrop. The album was written and performed entirely by Higgs and Thomas and is a...
, Canadian singer - Robert HiggsRobert HiggsRobert Higgs is an American economic historian, economist combining the insights from the Public Choice, Institutional and Austrian schools of economics, and a classical liberal or libertarian in political and legal theory and public policy...
, American economist - Shane HiggsShane HiggsShane Peter Higgs is an English footballer who is currently without a club after being released by Leeds United in the summer of 2011.-Early career:...
, an English footballer
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- Higgs, narrator in Samuel Butler's 1872 novel ErewhonErewhonErewhon: or, Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed in which part of the world Erewhon is, but it is clear that it is a fictional country...