List of things named after Christiaan Huygens
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Astronomy
- Cassini–Huygens, mission to Saturn and Titan
- Huygens (spacecraft), the probe of the Cassini-Huygens mission which landed on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005
- 2801 Huygens, an asteroid
- Huygens (crater), martian crater
- Mons Huygens, a mountain of Earth's Moon
- Huygens Gap, in the rings of Saturn
Physics
- Huygens law; see one of:
- Huygens–Steiner theorem
Optics
- Huygens–Fresnel principle
- Huygens' principle, see Huygens–Fresnel principle
- Huygens eyepiece, first compound eye piece
- Huygens Software, a microscope image processing package
Mathematics and games
- Huygens lemniscate, a figure eight curve
- König–Huygens formula, see Steiner–Huygens
Other
- Huygens-Fokker Foundation
- Huygens' tritone, a musical interval
- Christiaan Huygens College, High School in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- Huygens College, High School in Heerhugowaard, Netherlands.
- The Christiaan Huygens, a ship of the Nederland Line.
- Huygens Scholarship Programme for international students and Dutch students
- W.I.S.V. Christiaan Huygens: Dutch study guild for the studies Mathematics and Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology
- Huygens Laboratory: Home of the Physics department at Leiden University
- Huygens Supercomputer: at SARA, Amsterdam
- The Huygens-building in Noordwijk, Netherlands
- The Huygens-building at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.