Allan Octavian Hume (6 June 1829 - 31 July 1912) is a civil servant, political reformer and amateur ornithologist and horticulturalist in British India.

He is one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, a political party that is later to lead the Indian independence movement.

A notable ornithologist, Hume has been called "the Father of Indian Ornithology" and, by those who found him dogmatic, "the Pope of Indian ornithology."

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