Briggs Explained

Briggs may refer to:

People and fictional characters

• Briggs (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters
• Briggs (given name), a list of people
• Briggs (rapper) (born 1986), Australian rapper
• Bishop Briggs, stage name of British-American singer and songwriter Sarah Grace McLaughlin (born 1992)

Places

In the United States

• Briggs, Nebraska, an unincorporated community
• Briggs, Ohio, an extinct town
• Briggs, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
• Briggs, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Briggs, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Briggs Reservoir (Manomet, Massachusetts)
• Briggs Reservoir (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
• Briggs Lake, a lake in Minnesota
• Briggs Run, a tributary of the Mohawk River near Yosts, New York

Elsewhere

• Briggs Hill, Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Briggs Peninsula, Graham Land, Antarctica
• Briggs Islet, Tasmania, Australia
• Briggs Township, Ontario, Canada
• Briggs Inlet, British Columbia, Canada
• Briggs Glacier, South Georgia Island
• Briggs Point, South Georgia Island
• Briggs (crater), a lunar crater
• 4209 Briggs, an asteroid

Businesses

• Briggs Automotive Company, a car manufacturing company
• Briggs Manufacturing Company, manufacturer of car bodies for Ford and Chrysler
• Briggs & Little, a manufacturer of wool knitting yarns
• Briggs & Stratton, a manufacturer of air-cooled gasoline engines

Schools

• Richard C. Briggs High School, Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
• Briggs High School (Ohio), United States

Sports

• Briggs Stadium, a former name of Tiger Stadium, a former baseball ballpark in Detroit
• Briggs Stadium (Missouri State), a former name of Robert W. Plaster Stadium, a football stadium in Springfield, Missouri
• Briggs Motor Sport, a former Australian motor racing team

Other uses

• The Briggs, a punk rock band
• Briggs baronets, two extinct titles, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
• Briggs Formation, a geologic formation in Texas, United States
• Briggs Sanitorium, a former hospital in Oak Cliff, Texas
• Briggs v. Elliott, one of the school segregation cases consolidated with Brown v. Board of Education
• Briggs Initiative, either of two pieces of Californian legislation sponsored by John Briggs

See also

• Briggs House (disambiguation)
• Richard Briggs Farm, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, United States, on the National Register of Historic Places
• Briggs Report, a 1972 report of the Committee on Nursing in the United Kingdom