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Murchison is the name of:

  • Alice Lynne Murchison, the maiden name of Lindy Chamberlain
    Lindy Chamberlain

    Alice Lynne Chamberlain-Creighton was at the centre of one of Australia's most publicised murder trials, in which she was convicted of killing her baby daughter, Azaria Chamberlain disappearance....
  • Carl Murchison
    Carl Murchison

    Carl Murchison was an American psychologist and an early promoter of the the discipline of psychology. Unlike most psychologists who became prominent in the history books, Murchison was not an influential theorist or researcher....
    , psychologist
  • Ira Murchison
    Ira Murchison

    Ira James Murchison was an United States athletics , winner of the gold medal in 4x100 m Relay race at the 1956 Summer Olympics.Born in Chicago, Illinois, Ira Murchison was noted for his exceptional speed from the starting block, which earned him a nickname Human Sputnik....
    , American athlete
  • Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison
    Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison

    Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison was a United States of America architect. But for his grandfather's role in the 1715 Jacobite RIsing, Murchison would have been the 7th Earl of Seaforth...
    , American architect
  • Loren Murchison
    Loren Murchison

    Loren C. Murchison was an United States athletics , double gold medal winner in 4x100 m Relay race at the Olympic Games.Born in Farmersville, Texas, Loren Murchison was an Amateur Athletic Union Champion in in 1920 and 1923 and in in 1918 and 1923....
    , American athlete.
  • Roderick Murchison
    Roderick Murchison

    Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet Order of the Bath Fellow of the Royal Society , was an influential United Kingdom geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system....
    , Scottish geologist
  • Sally Fletcher Murchison
    Sally Fletcher-Murchison

    Sally Fletcher-Murchison is an American ceramic artist who was born in Hawaii in 1933. She grew up in Sacramento, California and received a BFA in advertising art from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1955....
    . American/Hawaiian ceramicist
of several places:

  • Murchison, New Zealand
    Murchison, New Zealand

    Murchison is a town in the Tasman region of the South Island of New Zealand. It is near the western end of the "Four Rivers Plain", at the confluence of the Buller River and the Matakitaki River....
     is the name of a town on the west coast of New Zealand's South Island
  • Murchison (Western Australia) is a region in Western Australia
  • Murchison, Victoria
    Murchison, Victoria

    Murchison is a small rural village located on the Goulburn River, Victoria in Victoria , Australia. Murchison is located 167 kilometres from Melbourne and is just to the west of the Goulburn Valley Highway between Shepparton, Victoria and Nagambie, Victoria....
     is a small rural village located on the Goulburn River in Victoria, Australia
  • Murchison, Texas
    Murchison, Texas

    Murchison is a city in Henderson County, Texas, Texas, United States. The population was 592 at the United States Census, 2000....
    , a city in Henderson County, Texas, USA
  • Mt. Murchison, the original name of the town of Wilcannia, New South Wales
    Wilcannia, New South Wales

    Wilcannia is a small town with a population of 759, located within the Central Darling Shire in north western New South Wales, Australia....
    , Australia
  • Murchison Falls National Park
    Murchison Falls National Park

    Murchison Falls National Park lies in north western Uganda, spreading inland from the shore of Lake Albert around the Victoria Nile. It is named for the Murchison Falls waterfall, itself named for a president of the Royal Geographical Society....
    , a national park in Uganda


of a number of geographical features:

  • Murchison Range, a range of mountains in South Africa
  • Murchison Mountains, a range of mountains in the South Island of New Zealand
  • Davenport Murchison Ranges in Australia
  • Davenport Murchison National Park
    Davenport Murchison National Park

    Davenport Murchison is a national park in the Northern Territory , 1033 km southeast of Darwin, Northern Territory. Amelia Creek crater, an ancient eroded impact crater lies within the Davenport Range in the area....
     in Australia
  • Murchison Glacier
    Murchison Glacier

    The Murchison Glacier is an 18 kilometre long glacier flowing through Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in the South Island of New Zealand. Lying to the east of Aoraki/Mount Cook, high in the Southern Alps, it flows southwestwards....
    , in the South Island of New Zealand
  • Murchison River, New Zealand
    Murchison River, New Zealand

    The Murchison River lies within the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in the South Island of New Zealand.It is fed by the Murchison Glacier and feeds into the Tasman River....
    , which flows from the Murchison Glacier
  • Murchison River, Western Australia
    Murchison River (Western Australia)

    The Murchison River is the second longest river in Western Australia. It flows for about 780 km from the southern edge of the Robinson Ranges to the Indian Ocean at Kalbarri, Western Australia....
  • Murchison Island, an island in Lake Nipigon in Canada


and of:

  • Electoral district of Murchison, a former state electorate of Western Australia
  • HMAS Murchison
    HMAS Murchison

    HMAS Murchison was a Modified River class frigate]] built in Australia during World War II and serving in the Royal Australian Navy ....
    , a warship of the Royal Australian Navy
  • In re Murchison, a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case
    List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 349

    This is a list of all the Supreme Court of the United States cases from volume 349 of the United States Reports:* Granville-Smith v. Granville-Smith, ...
     during the Warren Court
  • Murchison (crater)
    Murchison (crater)

    Murchison is a moon Impact crater on the north edge of the Sinus Medii. It shares a section of rim with the crater Pallas . To the southeast on the Lunar mare is the circular crater Chladni , and to the northeast is Ukert ....
    , a crater on the moon
  • Murchison Highway
    Murchison Highway

    The Murchison Highway runs from the West Coast, Tasmania of Tasmania to Burnie, and was not opened until 1964. The part of the Highway from Waratah to Burnie was known as the Waratah Highway until 1973 at the latest....
    , a road in Tasmania
  • Murchison (meteorite), a meteorite which fell on September 28, 1969 near Murchison, Victoria, Australia
  • The Murchison Murders
    The Murchison Murders

    The Murchison Murders were a series of three murders, committed by an itinerant stockman named Snowy Rowles, near the Rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia during the early 1930s....
     which occurred in the 1930s in the Murchison region of Western Australia
  • Murchison Prize, a medal awarded by the Royal Geographical Society