Edgar Erskine Hume CBE FRSE MD (26 December 1889 – 24 January 1952) was an American physician, Major General in the U.S. Army medical corps, writer and amateur ornithologist.

Hume studied medicine at Centre College in Kentucky, being the youngest member of the class, graduating BA in 1908 and MA in 1909.

After the earthquake in the Abruzzi mountains in January 1915, Hume was put in charge of the medical relief expedition organized by the U.S.

During September 1918, he was sent to France for temporary duty with several American units, and with the British Expeditionary Force, during the Meuse–Argonne offensive and the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, he was attached to the B.E.S General Hospital No.

Colonel Hume was appointed Chief Medical Officer for State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs,[4] to have charge of the anti-typhus campaign in the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, leading a team of eighteen physicians of the Medical Corps of the Army, working alongside Serbian Surgeon General Colonel Sondermeir.

[5] In June he was made American Red Cross Commissioner for State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, he was the only active duty medical officer involved,[6] he then became in charge of all American Red Cross activities in that part of the Balkans and with the Allied Army of Occupation in Hungary.

He was next on temporary duty with the American Forces in Germany and for two months as assistant to the Surgeon in the Post Hospital at Antwerp.

During this period he grew to fame as an amateur ornithologist and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1933.

[11] At the end of his term as Librarian, Hume was assigned to study at the Medical Field Service School at Carlisle Barracks before becoming Commanding Officer of the Winter General Hospital in Topeka, Kansas.

For the next two years, he served as Chief of the Reorientation Branch within the Civil Affairs Division of the Department of the Army in Washington, D.C.

In July 1950 he became Director-General of Medical Services in Korea a position he held from MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo until the end of the Allied occupation.

[14] In July 1918, prior to going on active duty in the First World War, he married Mary Swigert Hendrick of Frankfort who came from a distinguished line of Kentucky pioneer ancestry.