Shum may refer to:

Surnames

• Shum (surname), a surname in various cultures (including a list of people with the name)
  • Cen (surname) (岑), sometimes romanized Shum in Cantonese
  • Shen (surname) (沈), sometimes romanized Shum in Cantonese

Places

• Shum (location), a town in Pakistan
• Shum Laka, most prominent site in the Laka Valley of northwest Cameroon
• Shum-gora, burial mound in northwestern Russia

Music

• "Shum" (song), 2021 song by Go_A

Politics

• Takkanot Shum, set of decrees formulated and agreed by three central cities of medieval Rhineland
• Wagshum or shum, the governor of the province of Wag, with hereditary title from Zagwe dynasty; see Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles