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Hughes may refer to:
People
Places
Antarctica
- Hughes Range (Antarctica), Ross Dependency
- Mount Hughes, Oates Land
- Hughes Basin, Oates Land
- Hughes Bay, Graham Land
- Hughes Bluff, Victoria Land
- Hughes Glacier, Victoria Land
- Hughes Island, Victoria Land
- Hughes Peninsula, Ellsworth Land
- Hughes Point, Ellsworth Land
Australia
- Division of Hughes, an electoral district
- Hughes, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
- Hughes, Northern Territory, a rural locality
United States
- Hughes, Alaska, a city
- Hughes, Arkansas, a city
- Hughes, Iowa, a ghost town
- Hughes, Wisconsin, a town
- Hughes County, Oklahoma
- Hughes County, South Dakota
- Hughes Lake (California)
- Hughes Mountain, Missouri
- Hughes River (Virginia)
- Hughes River (West Virginia)
Other
- Hughes, Santa Fe, Argentina, a town
- Hughes Range (British Columbia), Canada
- Hughes Reef, South China Sea
- 1878 Hughes, an asteroid
Businesses
- Hughes Aircraft Company, a former major American aerospace and defense contractor founded by Howard Hughes, acquired by General Motors in 1985
- Hughes Electronics, created from a merger by General Motors
- Hughes Communications, a provider of satellite-based communications services
- Hughes Helicopters, 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, a defunct American television network
- Hughes Tool Company, purchased by Howard Hughes, Sr., later owned by his son Howard Hughes
Airports
In the military
- USS Hughes (DD-410), 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, 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, near Hamilton, Ohio, on the National Register of Historic Places
Other uses
- Hughes Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of London for an "original discovery in the physical sciences"
- Hughes baronets, two baronetcies, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain (extant) and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom (extinct)
See also
- Hughes House (disambiguation), various US buildings
- Hughes Manor, near Middletown, Ohio, on the National Register of Historic Places
- Hughes Stadium (disambiguation), several US stadiums
- Hughes Memorial Tower, Washington, DC, a radio tower
- Hughes breech-loading cannon, used by the Confederacy during the American Civil War
- Mr. Hughes (disambiguation)
- Hugh (disambiguation)
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