Huygens
Huygens is a Dutch patronymic surname, meaning "son of Hugo". Most references to "Huygens" are to the polymath Christiaan Huygens. Notable people with the surname include:
- Jan Huygen, Dutch voyager and historian
- Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet, diplomat, scholar and composer
- Constantijn Huygens, Jr., Dutch statesman, soldier, and telescope maker, son of Constantijn Huygens
- Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer, son of Constantijn Huygens
- Lodewijck Huygens, Dutch diplomat, the third son of Constantijn Huygens
- Cornélie Huygens, Dutch writer, social democrat and feminist
- Léon Huygens, Belgian painter
- Jan Huijgen, Dutch speedwalker
- Christiaan Huijgens, Dutch long-distance runner
- Wil Huygen, Dutch children's and fantasy writer, e.g. of Gnomes
Named after Constantijn Sr
Named after Christiaan Huygens
Astronomy:- Cassini–Huygens, mission to Saturn and Titan
- * Huygens (spacecraft), the probe of above mission which landed on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005
- 2801 Huygens, an asteroid
- Huygens (crater), a Martian crater
- Mons Huygens, a mountain of Earth's Moon
- Huygens Gap, main gap in the rings of Saturn
- Huygens's principle regarding wave propagation
- Huygens's law of the pendulum regarding pendulums
- Huygens–Steiner theorem regarding moment of inertia
- Huygens's tritone, a musical interval
- Huygens lemniscate, a figure eight curve
- Huygens eyepiece, first compound eye piece
Category:Patronymic surnames