Hughes may refer to:

People

* Hughes (surname) * Hughes (given name)

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 ...

, Ross Dependency * Mount Hughes, Oates Land * Hughes Basin, 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 wes ...

, Graham Land * Hughes Bluff, Victoria Land * Hughes Glacier, Victoria Land * Hughes Island, Victoria Land * Hughes Peninsula, 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, 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 foothills ...

* 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 , 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, produc ...

, 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 ...

, 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, 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 informat ...

, 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 Hel ...

, 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, 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 (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, 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, 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 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 wit ...

, 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)