# Murchison

Murchison may refer to:

## Geographical features

* 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
### 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

* 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