Hume

Hume may refer to 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
• Gary Hume, British artist
• Hamilton Hume, Australian explorer
• John Hume, Northern Irish politician
• Rob Hume, English ornithological writer
• Tobias Hume, English composer, viol player and soldier

It may also refer to several prominent Australian landmarks named after Hamilton Hume:

• the Hume Highway, the main road between Melbourne and Sydney
• Lake Hume, a large artificial lake
• the 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
• the Greater Hume Shire Council, a municipality in rural New South Wales
• Hume, New York, a town in the United States

It may also refer to several other topics:

• Hume is the name of the Human race in the role-playing games Final Fantasy XI and Final Fantasy XII.
• Hume (Higher-order Unified Meta-Environment) is a computer programming language.