Huygens

Huygens (also Huijgens, Huigens, Huijgen/Huygen, or Huigen) 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 (1563–1611), Dutch voyager and historian
 * Constantijn Huygens (1596–1687), Dutch poet, diplomat, scholar and composer
 * Constantijn Huygens, Jr. (1628–1697), Dutch statesman, soldier, and telescope maker, son of Constantijn Huygens
 * Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695), Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer, son of Constantijn Huygens
 * Lodewijck Huygens (1631–1699), Dutch diplomat, the third son of Constantijn Huygens
 * Cornélie Huygens (1848–1902), Dutch writer, social democrat and feminist
 * Léon Huygens (1876–1918), Belgian painter
 * Jan Huijgen (1888–1964), Dutch speedwalker
 * Christiaan Huijgens (1897–1963), Dutch long-distance runner
 * Wil Huygen (1922–2009), Dutch children's and fantasy writer, e.g. of Gnomes

Named after Constantijn Sr

 * Constantijn Huygens Prize, Dutch literary award
 * Huygens Institute for Dutch History

Named after Christiaan Huygens
Astronomy: Physics: Mathematics and games: Microscopes:
 * 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' principle regarding wave propagation
 * Huygens law regarding pendulums
 * Huygens–Steiner theorem regarding moment of inertia
 * Huygens' tritone, a musical interval
 * Huygens lemniscate, a figure eight curve
 * Huygens eyepiece, first compound eye piece
 * Huygens Software, a microscope image processing package