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People

• Sir Alec Douglas-Home (2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), British Prime Minister
• Allan Octavian Hume
  Allan Octavian Hume
  
  Allan Octavian Hume was an Indian Civil Service in British India and a political reformer. With William Wedderburn, he founded the Indian National Congress, a political party that was later to lead the Indian independence movement....
   (1829-1912), British administrator in India
• Andrew Hamilton Hume (1762-1849), Australian superintendent of convicts and farmer
• Andrew Hume, Australian convict and leader of final failed attempted to rescue Leichhardt's
  Ludwig Leichhardt
  
  Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt was a Prussian List of explorers and natural history. He was born in Sabrodt, today part of Tauche, Prussia ....
   expedition
• Basil Cardinal Hume
  Basil Cardinal Hume
  
  George Basil Cardinal Hume Order of Saint Benedict, Order of Merit was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1976 and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales from 1979 until his death....
  , former Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster
• Brit Hume
  Brit Hume
  
  Alexander Britton "Brit" Hume Sr. is an United States television journalist and commentator. He was the Washington, D.C. managing editor of the FOX News....
  , journalist best known for his work on Fox News
• David Hume
  David Hume
  
  David Hume was a Scotland philosopher, economist, historian and a key figure in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment....
   (1711-1776), 18th-century Scottish philosopher
• David Hume of Godscroft
  David Hume of Godscroft
  
  David Hume was a Kingdom of Scotland historian and political theorist. He was born at Godscroft, a farming hamlet 2 miles to the north of Abbey St....
  , 17th-century Scottish historian
• David Hume (explorer)
  David Hume (explorer)
  
  David Hume was a South African explorer and big-game hunter.David Hume was born in North Berwick, Scotland and came to South Africa with Benjamin Moodie's Scottish settlers in 1817....
  , Southern African explorer
• Gary Hume
  Gary Hume
  
  Gary Hume is an England artist and a leading Young British Artists ....
  , British artist
• Hamilton Hume
  Hamilton Hume
  
  Hamilton Hume was the first Australian born explorer.Hume was born on his father's property at Seven Hills, New South Wales near Parramatta, New South Wales, a settlement close to Sydney....
   (1797-1873), Australian explorer
• Iain Hume
  Iain Hume
  
  Iain Edward Hume is a Scotland-born Canada Association football player. On June 25 2008, it was announced that Hume had been signed for ?1.2m on a 3 year contract by Barnsley F.C.....
  , Canadian footballer
• Jim Hume
  Jim Hume
  
  Jim Hume is a Scotland Scottish Liberal Democrats Politics of Scotland and Member of the Scottish Parliament of the Scottish Parliament for the South of Scotland region since 2007....
  , Scottish politician
• John Hume
  John Hume
  
  John Hume is a former politician in Northern Ireland, founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and co-recipient of the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize, with David Trimble, Baron Trimble....
  , Northern Irish politician
• Joseph Hume
  Joseph Hume
  
  Joseph Hume Fellow of the Royal Society was a Scotland doctor and politician, born in Montrose, Angus....
   (b. 22 January 1777), British political reformer during the Age of Enlightenment
• Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1847-1910), English historian, born Martin Sharp (journalist)
  Martin Sharp (journalist)
  
  Martin Andrew Sharp was an English people historian, long a resident in Spain. He assumed the name Martin Andrew Sharp Hume as a condition of receiving a legacy from a Spanish-English relative who was a Hume....
  
• Matthew Hume World champion fighter/wrestler, trainer, pioneer of Mixed Martial Arts.
• Sir Patrick Hume or Home (1641-1724), Scottish statesman
• Peter Hume (politician), Canadian politician
• R. E. Hume, author and indologist
• Rob Hume
  Rob Hume
  
  Robert `Rob` Hume is an England ornithology, author and journalist specialising in bird and natural history subjects. Since Spring 1989 , he has been editing of the RSPB's Birds magazine, having previously edited the young people's version, Bird Life, and been librarian at the RSPB's headquarters, RSPB The Lodge....
  , English ornithological writer
• Tobias Hume
  Tobias Hume
  
  Tobias Hume was an England composer, viol player and soldier.Little is known of his life. Some have suggested that he was born in 1569 because he was admitted to the London Charterhouse in 1629, a pre-requisite to which was being at least 60 years old, though there is no certainty over this....
   (possibly 1569 - 16 April 1645), English composer, viola player and soldier
• William Hume-Rothery
  William Hume-Rothery
  
  William Hume-Rothery Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom metallurgist who studied the constitution of alloys. In his research, he concluded that the microstructure of an alloy depends on the sizes of the component atoms, as well as the valency electron concentration, and electrochemical differences....
   (1899-1968), British metallurgist

In fiction

• Hume (see Ivalice
  Ivalice
  
  is a fictional location in the Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story universes. The world was conceived by Yasumi Matsuno when he joined Square Co., Ltd....
  ), the name of the Human race in the computer role playing game series Final Fantasy
• Desmond Hume
  Desmond Hume
  
  Desmond David Hume is a fictional character on the American Broadcasting Company television series Lost portrayed by Henry Ian Cusick. Desmond's name is a tribute to David Hume, the famous empiricist author and philosopher....
  , a fictional character on the television series Lost
• Nick Hume, the protagonist of Death Sentence (film)

Places

• Hume Castle
  Hume Castle
  
  Hume Castle is the heavily modified remnants of a late 12th or early 13th century "Enceinte".Located between Greenlaw and Kelso, Scottish Borders, two miles north of the village of Stichill, in Berwickshire, Scotland....
  , the historic 13th century eponymous fortress of the Home/Hume family in Berwickshire, Scotland

• Hume, Australian Capital Territory
  Hume, Australian Capital Territory
  
  Hume is a suburb of Canberra in the district of Tuggeranong . The suburb is named after the explorer Hamilton Hume and streets are named after Australian industrialists and businessmen....
  , a suburb of Canberra
• the City of Hume
  City of Hume
  
  The City of Hume is a Local Government Areas of Victoria located partially within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria , Australia. It comprises the outer north-western suburbs between 13 and 40 kilometres from the Melbourne city centre....
  , a municipality in northern Melbourne
• Division of Hume
  Division of Hume
  
  The Division of Hume is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives in the States and territories of Australia of New South Wales. The Division is located in the central part of the state, just north of the Australian Capital Territory....
  , an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in New South Wales
• the Greater Hume Shire Council
  Greater Hume Shire Council
  
  Greater Hume Shire Council is a Local Government Areas in Australia of New South Wales, Australia. The Council was formed in 2004 incorporating Culcairn, New South Wales, the majority of Holbrook, New South Wales and part of Hume Shire....
  , a municipality in rural New South Wales
• any of several prominent landmarks named after Hamilton Hume:
• the Hume Highway
  Hume Highway
  
  The Hume Highway / Hume Freeway is one of Australia's most important and notable interstate highways which runs for 880 km inland between Sydney and Melbourne....
  , the main road between Melbourne and Sydney
• Lake Hume
  Lake Hume
  
  Lake Hume is an artificial lake in Australia formed by the Hume Weir east of Albury-Wodonga on the Murray River just downstream of its junction with the Mitta River....
  , a large artificial lake and the associated Hume Dam

• Hume, Illinois
  Hume, Illinois
  
  Hume is a village in Shiloh Township, Edgar County, Illinois and Young America Township, Edgar County, Illinois townships, Edgar County, Illinois, Illinois, United States....
  , in Edgar County
• Hume, New York
  Hume, New York
  
  Hume is a town in Allegany County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 1,987 at the 2000 census.The Town of Hume is on the northern border of Allegany County....
  
• Hume, Virginia
  Hume, Virginia
  
  Hume is an unincorporated community in Fauquier County, Virginia, Virginia. Hume is located five miles south of Interstate 66's Exit 18 and is named for the local Hume family....
  
• Hume Township, Whiteside County, Illinois
  Hume Township, Whiteside County, Illinois
  
  Hume Township is located in Whiteside County, Illinois, Illinois. The population was 472 at the United States Census 2000....
  
• Hume Township, Michigan
  Hume Township, Michigan
  
  Hume Township is a civil township of Huron County, Michigan in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the United States Census, 2000, the township population was 801....
  

Other

• Hume (soil)
  Hume (soil)
  
  Hume is a soil type that is well drained and slowly permeable. Hume is formed from the erosion of shale and sandstone. Hume soils occur naturally on slopes and alluvial fans....
  , a type of soil
• Hume (language)
  Hume (language)
  
  Hume is a functionally-based programming language developed at the University of St Andrews and Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, and named after the 18th Century philosopher David Hume....
   (Higher-order Unified Meta-Environment), a computer programming language