Briggs (surname)
Briggs is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adam Briggs, stage name Briggs (rapper), Australian rapper
- Alfie Briggs (1888–1952), Scottish footballer
- Allan Briggs (businessman), founder of Briggs Communications
- Allan Briggs (1873–1951), American Olympic sport shooter
- Andrew Briggs (George Andrew Davidson Briggs, born 1950) British scientist
- Andy Briggs (born 1972), British author and screenwriter
- Andy Briggs (businessman) (born 1966), British insurance executive
- Ann-Kio Briggs (born 1952), English-born Nigerian environmental and human rights activist
- Anne Briggs (born 1944), English folk singer
- Annie M. Briggs (born 1987), Canadian actress
- Ansel Briggs (1806–1881), American politician
- Arthur E. Briggs (1881–1969), California teacher, law school dean and politician
- Asa Briggs (1921–2016), English historian
- Barbara G. Briggs (born 1934), Australian botanist
- Barry Briggs (born 1934), New Zealand World Motorcycle speedway champion
- Benjamin Briggs (1835–1872), captain of the Mary Celeste
- Bill Briggs (disambiguation), multiple people, including:
- Bill Briggs (American football) (born 1943), American footballer
- Bill Briggs (American football coach), American football coach
- Bill Briggs (Canadian football), Canadian football player
- Bill Briggs (skier), American extreme skier and ski school director
- Billy Briggs (born 1977), American musician
- Bob Briggs (American football) (1945–1997), in American Football League and NFL
- Bob Briggs (Australian footballer) (1883–1955), Australian rules footballer
- Bob Briggs (chemist) (1905–1975), New Zealand organic chemist
- Carlos Briggs (born 1964), American basketball player
- Charles Briggs (disambiguation), multiple people
- Charles Briggs (cricketer) (1873–1949), Hampshire cricketer
- Charles Briggs (Royal Navy officer) (1858–1951), British admiral
- Charles A. Briggs, Central Intelligence Agency Office of Inspector General, 1982
- Charles Augustus Briggs (1841–1913), American Hebrew scholar and theologian
- Charles Frederick Briggs (1804–1877), American journalist, "Harry Franco"
- Charles James Briggs (1865–1941), British Major-General
- Charles L. Briggs (born 1953), American anthropologist
- Charlie Briggs (actor) (1932–1985), American actor
- Charlie Briggs (baseball) (1860–1920), baseball player
- Charlie Briggs (footballer) (1911–1993), English football goalkeeper
- Charlie Briggs (One Life to Live)
- Chuck Briggs (1960–2000), American punk rock guitarist
- Clare Briggs (1875–1930), American comics artist
- Danny Briggs (born 1991), English cricketer
- Dave Briggs (journalist) (born 1976), American television news anchor
- David Briggs (disambiguation), multiple people
- David Briggs, inventor of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- David Briggs (American musician) (born 1943), American keyboardist and record producer
- David Briggs (Australian musician) (born 1951), Australian guitarist with Little River Band
- David Briggs (English musician) (born 1962), English organist and composer
- David Briggs (headmaster) (1917–2020), English headmaster of King's College School, Cambridge
- David Briggs (record producer) (1944–1995), American record producer
- David Briggs, High Sheriff of Cheshire
- David T. Briggs (born 1954), president of Erie Plating Company
- Derek Briggs (born 1950), Irish paleontologist
- Everett Francis Briggs (1908–2006), American Catholic priest and miners' activist
- Frank Briggs (disambiguation), several people, including
- Francis Stewart Briggs (1897–1966), Australian aviator
- Frank Briggs (footballer) (1917–1984), English soccer player
- Frank A. Briggs (1858–1898), American Governor of the state of North Dakota
- Frank O. Briggs (1851–1913), U.S. Senator from New Jersey
- Frank P. Briggs (1894–1992), U.S. Senator from Missouri
- Gary Briggs (musician), British guitarist
- Gary Briggs (footballer) (born 1959), British footballer
- George N. Briggs, American politician
- Gilbert Briggs (1890–1978), English founder of Wharfedale loudspeakers
- Greg Briggs (born 1968), American football player
- Harlan Briggs (1879 – 1952), American actor
- Harold Briggs (disambiguation), multiple people
- Harold Douglas Briggs (1877-1944), senior Royal Navy and Royal Air Force officer
- Harold Rawdon Briggs, Director of Operations for the British Army in Malaya 1950–1951
- Harold Briggs (politician) (1870–1945), British Conservative Member of Parliament
- Henry Briggs (disambiguation), multiple people
- Henry Briggs (mathematician) (1561–1630), English mathematician
- Henry Perronet Briggs (1793–1844), English painter
- Henry Shaw Briggs (1824–1887), Union Army general in the American Civil War
- Sir Henry Briggs (politician) (1844–1919), Australian politician
- Henry Briggs (footballer) (1871–1913), English footballer
- Ian Briggs (born 1958), British television writer
- Jack Briggs (disambiguation)
- Jack Briggs (broadcaster), American radio broadcaster
- Jack Briggs (cricketer) (1916–1984), English cricketer
- Jack Briggs (actor) (1920-1998), husband of American actress Ginger Rogers
- James Briggs (disambiguation), any of several people
- James Briggs (musician) (born 1978), American keyboardist and saxophonist
- James E. Briggs (1906–1979), United States Air Force general
- James Frankland Briggs (1827–1905), United States Representative from New Hampshire
- Jamie Briggs (born 1977), Australian politician
- Jason W. Briggs (1821–1899), American Latter Day Saint leader
- Jean Briggs (1929–2016), American-born Canadian anthropologist, ethnographer and linguist
- Jeff Briggs (born 1957), American composer and former computer games executive
- Jimmy Briggs (1937–2011), Scottish footballer
- Joe Bob Briggs, pseudonym of John Irving Bloom (born 1953), American film critic and actor
- John Briggs (disambiguation), multiple people by the name of John, Johnny, and other variations
- John Briggs (author), American author and university lecturer
- John Briggs (baseball) (1934–2018), American baseball pitcher
- John Briggs (bishop) (1789–1861), Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District of England
- John Briggs (East India Company officer) (1785–1875), British officer and author
- John Briggs (politician) (1930–2020), American politician
- John Briggs, activist from Florida, member of the Gainesville Eight
- John Joseph Briggs (1819–1876), writer
- John Q. Briggs (1848–1921), American Republican State Senator (1907–1911)
- John Thomas Briggs (1781–1865), accountant-general of the Royal Navy
- Johnny Briggs (cricketer) (1862–1902), English cricketer
- Johnny Briggs (actor) (born 1935), English actor in soap opera Coronation Street
- Johnny Briggs (baseball) (born 1944), American former baseball outfielder
- Jon Briggs (born 1965), English voice actor and journalist
- Jonny Briggs, eponymous character in a BBC children's television programme, first broadcast in 1985
- Josephine Briggs, American nephrologist
- Karen Briggs (disambiguation), multiple people
- Karen Briggs (musician) (born 1963), American violinist
- Karen Briggs (judoka) (born 1963), British judoka
- Katharine Cook Briggs (1875–1968), American co-inventor of the Myers-Briggs personality test
- Katharine Mary Briggs (1898–1980), British author
- Kenneth Briggs (born 1933), English cricketer and RAF officer
- Kevin "She'kspere" Briggs, American record producer
- Kim Briggs (handballer) (born 1977), Australian handball player and coach
- Lance Briggs (born 1980), American football player
- Lauren Briggs (born 1979), English squash player
- LeBaron Russell Briggs (1855–1934), American educator
- Leland Lawrence Briggs (1893–1975), American accounting scholar
- Lyman James Briggs (1874–1963), American physicist and civil servant
- Margaret Jane Briggs (1892–1961), New Zealand show-ring rider
- Mary Blatchley Briggs (1846– 1910), American writer and women's organizer
- Matt Briggs (born 1970), American writer
- Matthew Briggs (born 1991), English footballer
- Melancthon J. Briggs (1846–1923), American politician
- Michael Briggs (disambiguation), multiple people
- Michael Peter Briggs (scientist) (born 1944), British scientist and university administrator
- Michael Briggs (judge), British judge
- Michael Briggs (police officer), police officer from New Hampshire, shot in 2006
- Michael Briggs, Lord Briggs of Westbourne (born 1954), judge in England and Wales
- Michael Briggs (racing driver) (born 1966), South African racing driver
- Mike Briggs (politician) (born 1959), American politician
- Mike Briggs (tennis) (born 1968), American tennis player
- Nicholas Briggs (born 1961), British actor
- Nimi Briggs (born 1944), Nigerian academic
- Patricia Briggs (born 1965), American fantasy writer
- Patrick Briggs (born 1940), English cricketer, rugby player and school headmaster
- Paul Briggs (disambiguation), multiple people
- Paul Briggs (American football) (1920–2011), American football tackle
- Paul Briggs (animator) (born 1974), American artist, animator, and voice actor
- Paul Briggs (boxer) (born 1975), Australian
- Raymond Briggs (born 1934), British illustrator and author
- Robert Briggs (disambiguation), several people
- Robert Briggs (scientist) (1911–1983), cloning pioneer
- Robert Briggs (American football) (born 1941), American football player
- Robert Briggs (character), Hollywood screenwriter
- Robert Briggs (MP) (died 1615), MP for Boroughbridge
- Robert Briggs (poet) (1929–2015), American poet
- Robert Briggs (publisher), American author and publisher, for Straight Arrow Press
- Robert H. Briggs, American lawyer and historian
- Robert O. Briggs (1927–2008), director of the University of California Marching Band
- Robert P. Briggs (1903–1998), American businessman
- Robert William Briggs (1911–1983), American biologist
- Shannon Briggs (born 1971), American boxer
- Stephen Briggs (born 1951), British Discworld adapter
- Stephen Foster Briggs (1885–1976), American engineer, co-founder of the Briggs & Stratton Company
- Ted Briggs (1923–2008), British seaman, survivor of HMS Hood
- Thomas Briggs (disambiguation), multiple people
- Thomas Briggs (coach), American football coach
- Thomas Briggs (Royal Navy officer) (1780–1852), British naval officer
- Thomas Briggs (died 1864), British banker, murdered by Franz Müller
- Sir Thomas Graham Briggs (1833–1887), of the Briggs baronets, member Executive Council of Barbados
- Tom Briggs (disambiguation), multiple people
- Tom Briggs (footballer) (1919–1999), English footballer
- Tom Briggs (gridiron football) (born 1970), American football player
- Tommy Briggs (1923–1984), English footballer
- Walter Briggs (disambiguation), multiple people
- Walter Briggs, Sr. (1877–1952), owner of the Detroit Tigers and Briggs Manufacturing Company
- Walter Briggs, Jr. (1912–1970), son of Walter Briggs, Sr. and owner of the Detroit Tigers
- William Briggs (physician) (1642–1704), English physician and oculist
- William Edward Briggs (1847–1903), English cotton manufacturer and Liberal politician
- Sir William Edward Briggs Priestley (1859–1932), Liberal politician
- William B. Briggs (born 1954), subject matter expert in sports and entertainment law
- William Briggs (publisher) (1836–1922), Irish-born Canadian Methodist minister and publisher
- William Perry Briggs (1856–1928), English medical officer of health
- William James Harold Briggs, (Harold Briggs (politician) 1870–1945), British Conservative
- William Ronald Briggs, (Ronnie Briggs 1943–2008), Northern Irish footballer
- William Briggs, Canadian book publishing imprint later known as Ryerson Press
Fictional characters
- Bobby Briggs, fictional character in American television series Twin Peaks
- Calico "Callie" Briggs, fictional character in SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
- Hortense Briggs, fictional character in An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
- Major Garland Briggs, fictional character in Twin Peaks
- Jacqui Briggs, character in the arcade/videogame series Mortal Kombat
- Jackson "Jax" Briggs, character in the arcade/videogame series Mortal Kombat
- Jonny Briggs, main character of eponymous BBC children's drama 1985–1987
- Kim Briggs (Scrubs), mother of J.D.'s baby in American TV comedy-drama Scrubs
- Sandra Briggs, fictional character in British soap opera Emmerdale
- Miss Briggs, character in American television series iCarly
- Uncle Briggs, host of an American children's television series which aired on WSIL-TV
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