Blair

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Blair can refer to any of a number of people, places, and things.

People with Blair as a surname include:

• Bill Blair, baseball pitcher in the Negro Leagues
• Bill Blair (police chief), Toronto police chief
• Bonnie Blair, Olympic gold medalist in speed skating
• Dennis Blair, retired Navy admiral, president of the Institute for Defense Analyses
• Eric Blair, an author better known by his pen name George Orwell
• Francis Preston Blair, Jr., 19th century American politician
• Henry Blair, narrator of Sparky's Magic Piano, a series of children’s audio stories
• Henry William Blair (1834 - 1920), United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire
• Sir Ian Blair, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London
• James Blair (clergyman), Scottish clergyman and founder of the College of William and Mary
• Jayson Blair, former New York Times reporter
• John Blair, 18th-century American politician and one of the first Associate Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court
• Linda Blair, actress
• Lionel Blair, entertainer
• Montgomery Blair, American politician and lawyer
  • Montgomery Blair High School, in Maryland
• Preston Blair (1908 - 1994), American animator for Disney, MGM, and Hanna-Barbera
• any of various people named Robert Blair
• Selma Blair, actress
• Tony Blair, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • Tony Blair’s family includes:
    • Cherie Blair (spouse)
    • Euan Blair (first child)
    • Nicky Blair (second child)
    • Kathryn Blair (third child)
    • Leo Blair (fourth child)
    • Leo Blair (senior) (father)
    • William J. L. Blair (brother)

People whose first names are Blair include:

• Blair Brown, actress
• Blair Horn, Canadian rower
• Blair Hull, American businessman and politician
• Blair McDonough, Australian actor
• Blair Peach, New Zealand-born teacher and alleged victim of police brutality
• Blair Underwood, actor

Places named Blair include:

• Blair, Nebraska
• Blair County, Pennsylvania
• Division of Blair, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland, Australia
• Blair Athol, South Australia
• Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
• Blair Castle, a famous castle in Blair Atholl, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
• Blair's Cove, in Durrus, County Cork, Ireland

Things with Blair in the name include:

• The Blair Witch Project, a horror film
• Blair House, residence of Harry Truman during his term of presidency in the United States
• The Blair Toilet, a hygienic, odorless, easy-to-construct form of long-drop developed in Zimbabwe for use in rural communities
• Blair Station (OC Transpo), a transit station of Ottawa's OC Transpo public transit network
• Blair Road (Ottawa), a major north-south artery in the city of Ottawa

Pop culture references include:

• Christopher Blair, the player's character throughout the Wing Commander computer game series
• Blair Warner, a character from the sitcom The Facts of Life