Briggs (surname)
Briggs is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adam Briggs, stage name Briggs, Australian rapper
- Alfie Briggs, Scottish footballer
- Ann-Kio Briggs, English-born Nigerian environmental and human rights activist
- Anne Briggs, English folk singer
- Annie M. Briggs, Canadian actress
- Ansel Briggs, American politician
- Arthur E. Briggs, California teacher, law school dean and politician
- Asa Briggs, English historian
- Barbara G. Briggs, Australian botanist
- Barry Briggs, New Zealand World Motorcycle speedway champion
- Benjamin Briggs, captain of the Mary Celeste
- Bill Briggs, multiple people
- Billy Briggs, American musician
- Carlos Briggs, American basketball player
- Charles Augustus Briggs, American theologian
- Charles Frederick Briggs, American journalist
- Charles James Briggs, British Army general
- Charlie Briggs , English footballer
- Clare Briggs, American comics artist
- Danny Briggs, English cricketer
- David Briggs, multiple people
- Derek Briggs, Irish paleontologist
- Everett Francis Briggs, American Catholic priest and miners' activist
- Frank A. Briggs, American politician
- Frank O. Briggs, American politician
- Frank P. Briggs, American politician
- Gary Briggs, British guitarist
- Gary Briggs , British footballer
- George N. Briggs, American politician
- Gilbert Briggs, English founder of Wharfedale loudspeakers
- Greg Briggs, American football player
- Harlan Briggs, American actor
- Harold Briggs, multiple people
- Henry Briggs, multiple people
- Ian Briggs, British television writer
- Jack Briggs
- James Briggs, any of several people
- Jason W. Briggs, American Latter Day Saint leader
- Jean Briggs, American-born Canadian anthropologist, ethnographer and linguist
- Jeff Briggs, American composer and former computer games executive
- Joe Bob Briggs, pseudonym of John Irving Bloom, American film critic and actor
- John Briggs, multiple people by the name of John, Johnny, and other variations
- Josephine Briggs, American nephrologist
- Karen Briggs, multiple people
- Katharine Cook Briggs, American co-inventor of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality test
- Katharine Mary Briggs, British author
- Kenneth Briggs, English cricketer and RAF officer
- Kevin "She'kspere" Briggs, American record producer
- Kim Briggs , Australian handball player and coach
- Lance Briggs, American football player
- Lauren Briggs, English squash player
- LeBaron Russell Briggs, American educator
- Leland Lawrence Briggs, American accounting scholar
- Lyman James Briggs, American physicist and civil servant
- Margaret Jane Briggs, New Zealand show-ring rider
- Mary Blatchley Briggs, American writer and women's organizer
- Matt Briggs, American writer
- Matthew Briggs, English footballer
- Melancthon J. Briggs, American politician
- Michael Briggs, British judge
- Nicholas Briggs, British actor
- Nimi Briggs, Nigerian academic
- Patricia Briggs, American fantasy writer
- Patrick Briggs, English cricketer, rugby player and school headmaster
- Paul Briggs, multiple people
- Raymond Briggs, British illustrator and author
- Robert William Briggs, American biologist
- Shannon Briggs, American boxer
- Stephen Briggs, British Discworld adapter
- Stephen Foster Briggs, American engineer, co-founder of the Briggs & Stratton Company
- Ted Briggs, British seaman, survivor of HMS Hood
- Tom Briggs, multiple people
- Walter Briggs, multiple people
Fictional characters
- Bobby Briggs, fictional character in American television series Twin Peaks
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- 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, 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
