In Literature
- Tadhg Mór O'Higgins, of sligo, who died in 1315
- Maol Sheachluinn na n-Uirsgéal Ó hUiginn fl. c. 1400
- Tadg Óg Ó hÚigínn died 1448
- Sean mac Fergail Óicc Ó hUiccinn, died 1490
- Gilla na Neamh Ó h-Uiginn
- Tadhg Mór Ó hUiginn
- Donnell O'Higgins, died 1501. "Chief Preceptor of the schools of Ireland in poetry".
- Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn, c. 1550-c.1591, murdered for his satires
- Tom O'Higgins, 1917–2003, TD and former Chief Justice, Presidential candidate in 1966 and 1973
- Marguerite Higgins (1920–1966), war correspondent
- Aidan Higgins, born 1927, Irish writer
- Jack Higgins (born 1929), principal pseudonym of UK novelist Harry Patterson
- George V. Higgins (1939–1999), attorney and author
- Michael D. Higgins, born 1941), poet, Mayor of Galway, TD and Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht from 1993–97
- Rita Ann Higgins, poet and playwright, born 1955
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