Hughes may refer to:

People

Hughes (given name) Hughes is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Hughes Cleaver (1892–1980), Canadian politician * Hughes Eng (fl. from 1959), Canadian community activist * Hughes Rudd (1921–1992), American television journalist and n ...

, including a list of people with the given name *

Hughes (surname) Hughes ( ) is an English language surname, usually of Irish and Welsh origin. Origins Hughes is an Anglicized spelling of the Welsh and Irish patronymic surname. The surname may also derive from the etymologically unrelated Picard variant Hu ...

, including a list of people with the surname

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 at is the highest. The range is located east of Canyon Glacier in the Queen Maud Mountains and ...

, Ross Dependency * Mount Hughes, Oates Land *

Hughes Basin Hughes Basin () is a large basinlike névé 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 north–south from near Mount Olympu ...

, Oates Land *

Hughes Bay Hughes Bay () is a bay lying between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Location Hughes Bay is on the Danco Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, on the west side of Graham Land. It is west of the so ...

, Graham Land *

Hughes Bluff The David Glacier () is a glacier over long, flowing east from the polar plateau through the Prince Albert Mountains to the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It enters Ross Sea between Cape Philippi and Cape Reynolds to form the floating Drygal ...

, Victoria Land * Hughes Glacier, Victoria Land *

Hughes Island Lyall Islands () is a group of four islands, Unger Island, Surgeon Island, Novosad Island and Hughes Island, lying just outside the entrance to Yule Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming The Lyall Islands were discovered by Cap ...

, Victoria Land *

Hughes Peninsula Thurston Island () is a largely ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long and wide, lying between Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. The island is separated from the mainlan ...

, Ellsworth Land * Hughes Point, Ellsworth Land

Australia

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, the seventh Prime Minister of A ...

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 ...

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 ...

Division of Hughes The Division of Hughes is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales. History The division was created in 1955 and is named for B ...

, an electoral district in New South Wales

United States

* Hughes, Alaska **

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, Arkansas Hughes is a city in St. Francis County, Arkansas, St. Francis County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it had a population of 1,056. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a ...

Hughes, Iowa Hughes is a ghost town in Hardin County, Iowa, Hardin County, in the U.S. state of Iowa. History A post office was established at Hughes in 1890, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1901. Hughes was named for H. M. Hughes, a r ...

Hughes, Wisconsin Hughes is a town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 471 at the 2020 census, up from 383 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated communities of Muskeg and Wills are located in the town. Geography According to the Unite ...

Hughes County, Oklahoma Hughes County is a county located in south central U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,367. 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 in the U.S. state of South Dakota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,765, making it the least populous capital county in the nation, and the 12th most populous county in South Dakota. Its county seat is P ...

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. At times the lake goes completely dry for years, as its water supply depends on local winter rain and snowmelt. Neighb ...

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 Th ...

, 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 ris ...

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 River, Ohio Rivers, it is part of the drainage basin, watershed of the Mississippi River. As measured ...

Elsewhere

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, t ...

, Canada *

Hughes Reef Hughes Reef (Mandarin , ) 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. The PRC has reclaim ...

, South China Sea *

1878 Hughes Events January * 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 – Russo-Turkish War: ...

, an asteroid

Companies

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 the Hughes Tool Company. The company produced the Hughes H-4 Hercules air ...

, a former American aerospace contractor founded by Howard Hughes *

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 former American computer firm *

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. Surviving parts of Hughes Electronics are today known as DirecTV Group, while the automoti ...

, a former electronics business *

Hughes Helicopters Hughes Helicopters was a major manufacturer of military and civilian 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 ...

, a former helicopter manufacturer *

Hughes Network Systems Hughes Network Systems, LLC is an American telecommunications company that specializes in providing satellite-based communication services for consumer and enterprise markets. It is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland and provides satellite i ...

, a provider of satellite internet services *

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 su ...

, now Aricent *

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 *

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 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 TV 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 ...

, a former American manufacturer of drill bits

Education

Hughes Hall, Cambridge Hughes Hall is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The majority of students are postgraduate, although nearly one-fifth of the student population comprises individuals aged 21 ...

, a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England * Hughes School District, Hughes, Arkansas, U.S. * Hughes High School (disambiguation) *

Hughes Middle School (disambiguation) Hughes Middle School may refer to: * Hughes Middle School (Long Beach, California) * Langston Hughes Middle School (Reston, Virginia) {{schooldis ...

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 do ...

, near Hamilton, Ohio, U.S.

Other uses

Hughes Medal The Hughes Medal is a silver-gilt medal awarded by the Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. T ...

, awarded by the Royal Society of London * Hughes baronets, two British baronetcies * , a World War II US Navy destroyer *

, Hughes, Alaska, United States *

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 ...

, a former airport in Los Angeles, California, United States *

, in the Northern Territory of Australia