Hume

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Hume is the name of several people:

In an international setting Hume most likely refers to:

• David Hume, (1711-76) 18th-century Scottish philosopher

It can also refer to:

• Alexander Hamilton Hume (1797-1873) Australian explorer
• Andrew Hamilton Hume (1762-1849) Australian superintendent of convicts and farmer [1]
• Andrew Hume Australian convict and leader of final failed attempted to rescue Leichhardt's expedition [2][3][4]
• Allan Octavian Hume, (1829-1912) British administrator in India
• Basil Cardinal Hume, former Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
• Brit Hume, journalist best known for his work on Fox News
• David Hume (explorer), Southern African explorer
• Gary Hume, British artist
• Iain Hume, Canadian footballer
• John Hume, Northern Irish politician
• Joseph Hume (born, January 22, 1777) British political reformer during the Enlightenment
• Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1847-1910) English historian, born Martin Andrew Sharp
• Sir Patrick Hume, or Home (1641-1724) Scottish statesman
• Rob Hume, English ornithological writer
• Robert Hume, Chinese Expert from Melbourne, Australia
• Tobias Hume, English composer, viola player and soldier
• Desmond Hume, a fictional character on the television series Lost

 Home is an older obsolescent variant spelling of Hume 

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 Castle, the historic 13c. fortress of the Home/Hume family in Berwickshire, Scotland
• 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
• Hume, Virginia, a village 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 game series Final Fantasy
• Hume (language) (Higher-order Unified Meta-Environment) is a computer programming language