Everett Ellis Briggs (born April 6, 1934, in Havana, Cuba) is a United States diplomat. Briggs was born in Havana, Cuba in 1934, to Ellis Ormsbee Briggs and Lucy Barnard Briggs, where his father was stationed as a U.S. diplomat. He is an alumnus of Dartmouth College. He served as United States Ambassador to Panama from 1982 to 1986, United States Ambassador to Honduras from 1986 to 1989, and United States Ambassador to Portugal from 1990 to 1993. He also served abroad in Bolivia, Occupied Berlin, Angola, Paraguay and Colombia. He was president of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas.