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 (disambiguation)

• 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