'''Murchison''' may refer to: {{toc right}} ==Geographical features==<!-- alphabetized --> * Lake Murchison, Tasmania, Australia * Mount Murchison (Tasmania), Australia * Murchison bioregion, a bioregion in Western Australia * Murchison Falls, Uganda * Murchison Glacier, New Zealand * Murchison Island, an island in Lake Nipigon, Ontario, Canada * Murchison Promontory, Canada * Murchison Range, Stauning Alps, Greenland * Murchison River (disambiguation) * Murchison Sound, Greenland
===National parks=== * Iytwelepenty / Davenport Ranges National Park in Australia * Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda * Murchison Mountains, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand
==Places==<!-- alphabetized by country --> ===Australia=== * Electoral district of Murchison-Eyre, a former state electorate of Western Australia * Electoral division of Murchison, an electorate in the Tasmanian Legislative Council * Murchison County, New South Wales * Murchison, Victoria * Murchison (Western Australia), a sub-region in the state * Shire of Murchison, a local government area in Western Australia ** Murchison Settlement, within the Shire
===South Africa=== * Murchison, KwaZulu-Natal * Murchison, Limpopo
===Other places=== * Murchison, New Zealand * Murchison, Texas, United States
==Science== * Murchison Award, awarded by the Royal Geographical Society * The Murchison Fund, awarded by the Geological Society of London * Murchison Medal, awarded by the Geological Society of London * Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, a designated radio quiet zone in Western Australia. * Murchison Widefield Array, a radio telescope in Western Australia
==Other uses==<!-- alphabetized --> * Murchison (crater), a crater on the Moon * Murchison Building in Wilmington, North Carolina * Murchison Highway, a road in Tasmania * Murchison letter, a political scandal in 1888 in U.S. * Murchison meteorite, which fell in 1969 near Murchison, Victoria, Australia * The Murchison Murders which occurred in the 1930s in the Murchison region of Western Australia * HMAS ''Murchison'' (K442), a warship of the Royal Australian Navy * ''In re Murchison'', a 1955 U.S. Supreme Court case during the Warren Court
==People with the surname== * Alice Lynne Murchison, maiden name of Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton * Carl Murchison (1887–1961), American psychologist * Charles Murchison (politician) (1872–1952), British politician * Charles Murchison (physician) (1830–1879), British physician * Charlotte Murchison (1788–1869), Scottish geologist * Christian Murchison (b. 1980), Singaporean racing driver * Clint Murchison Jr. (1923–1987), Texas businessman * Clint Murchison Sr. (1895–1969), Texas businessman * Elizabeth Murchison, British-Australian geneticist * Ira Murchison (1933–1994), American athlete * Kenneth Murchison (1794–1854), British diplomat * Kenneth MacKenzie Murchison (1872–1938), American architect * Larrell Murchison (b. 1997), American football player * Loren Murchison (1898–1979), American athlete * Lucia Murchison (1900–1983), American social worker * Roderick Murchison (1792–1871), Scottish geologist for whom most of the geographical features above are directly or indirectly named * Sally Fletcher-Murchison (b. 1933), American-Hawaiian ceramicist * Tim Murchison (1896–1962), American baseball player * William Murchison, American political columnist
==See also== * Davenport Murchison Ranges bioregion * Mount Murchison (disambiguation)
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