Hume
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Hume is the name of several people:
- Allan Octavian Hume, English ornithologist
- Basil Cardinal Hume, former Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
- Brit Hume, journalist best known for his work on Fox News
- David Hume, 18th-century Scottish philosopher
- David Hume (explorer), Southern African explorer
- Gary Hume, British artist
- Hamilton Hume, Australian explorer
- Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
- John Hume, Northern Irish politician
- Rob Hume, English ornithological writer
- Tobias Hume, English composer, viola player and soldier
It may also refer to any of several prominent Australian landmarks named after Hamilton Hume:
- the Hume Highway, the main road between Melbourne and Sydney
- Lake Hume, a large artificial lake and the associated Hume Dam, which forms Lake Hume
It may also refer to several places:
- Hume, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra
- the City of Hume, a municipality in northern Melbourne
- Division of Hume, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales.
- the Greater Hume Shire Council, a municipality in rural New South Wales
- Hume, Illinois, a village in the United States
- Hume, New York, a town in the United States
It may also refer to any of several other topics:
- Hume is the name of the Human race in the computer role playing games Races of Final Fantasy
- Hume (language) (Higher-order Unified Meta-Environment) is a computer programming language