Hughes may refer to: People Hughes (surname) Hughes (given name) 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 Hughes Electronics, created from a merger by General Motors Hughes Communications, a provider of satellite-based communications services Hughes Dynamics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Tool in the computer services business in the early 1960s 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 Hughes Airport (Alaska) Hughes Airport (California) In the military , 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