People
- Alan Higgs (died 1979), English businessman and philanthropist
- Derek Higgs (1944–2008), an English business leader and merchant banker
- Eric Sidney Higgs (1908–1976), English archaeologist
- Griffin Higgs (1589–1659), an English churchman
- Henry Higgs (1864–1940), English civil servant, economist and historian of economic thought
- Joe Higgs (1940–1999), Jamaican singer and musician
- Ken Higgs (born 1937), English cricketer
- Michael Higgs (politician) (1912–1995), British Member of Parliament
- Peter Higgs (born 1929), physicist, namesake of the Higgs boson particle
- Ray Higgs, Australian rugby league footballer
- Rebekah Higgs (1982), Canadian singer
- Robert Higgs (1944), American economist
- Shane Higgs (1977), an English footballer
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