David Murray, 5th Viscount of Stormont (1665 – 19 November 1731) was a Scottish Jacobite peer.
He was the son of David Murray, 4th Viscount Stormont (died 1668), and Lady Jean Carnegie, daughter of James Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Southesk and Lady Mary Kerr, daughter of Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe In 1689, Stormont was summoned to attend the Committee of Estates in Edinburgh in the wake of the Glorious Revolution.
[1] Despite subsequently taking an oath of allegiance to Queen Anne, he made little secret of his Jacobite politics.
In advance of the planned French invasion of Britain in 1708, Stormont received instructions from James Francis Edward Stuart, but he was taken into custody for three months, on suspicion, by the government in Edinburgh.
[2] He was described by Nathaniel Hooke as being "rich, powerful and strongly determined" in the Jacobite interest.