Balfour (surname)
Balfour is a Scottish family name, and may refer to:
Earls of Balfour
- See also Balfours of Whittingehame
- Arthur Balfour (1848-1930), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905, 1st Earl of Balfour and author of the Balfour Declaration of 1917
- Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour (1853-1945), Arthur's brother and also a Conservative politician
Barons Kinross
- John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, British politician
- John Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, British historian
Balfours of Balbirnie
- Robert Balfour, 4th of Balbirnie (1698 - 1767)
- John Balfour, 5th of Balbirnie (1738 - 1833)
- Robert Balfour, 6th of Balbirnie (1762 - 1837), cavalry officer
Balfours of Whittingehame
- See also Earls of Balfour
- James Balfour (died 1845) (c1775–1845), Scottish nabob, landowner and Tory politician
- James Maitland Balfour (1820–1856), Scottish politician
- Eustace Balfour (1854–1911), Scottish architect and aide-de-camp to King Edward VII
- Francis Maitland Balfour (1851-1882), biologist
- Lady Eve Balfour (1899–1990), English pioneer of organic farming
Others
- Alexander Balfour (1824–1886), Scottish merchant and shipowner
- Andrew Balfour (1873–1931), Scottish medical officer, author and international rugby player
- David Balfour (disambiguation)
- David A. Balfour (1889–1956), Canadian politician
- David Paton Balfour (1841–1894), New Zealand sheepfarmer, station manager, roading supervisor and diarist
- Edward Balfour (1808–1884), Scottish surgeon and orientalist in India
- Eric Balfour (born 1977), American actor
- Evan Balfour (born 1965), Scottish footballer
- Frederic H. Balfour (fl. 1871–1908), British essayist and translator
- Grant Balfour (born 1977), baseball player
- Harold Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye (1897–1988), British World War I fighter ace and Conservative politician
- H. Balfour Gardiner (1877–1950), British composer
- Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour (1853–1922), Scottish botanist
- Honor Balfour (1912–2001), British politician and journalist
- James Balfour (architect) (1854–1917), Canadian architect from Hamilton, Ontario
- James Balfour (Canadian politician) (1928–1999)
- James Balfour (clergyman) (1731–1809), Newfoundland Church of England clergyman
- James Balfour, Lord Pittendreich (1583–1584), Scottish judge and politician
- Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet (1600–1658), Scottish annalist and antiquary, Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1650–1658
- John Hutton Balfour (1808–1884), Scottish botanist
See also
- Earl of Balfour
- Balfour baronets
- Lord Balfour of Burleigh
- Baron Balfour of Glenawley
- Baron Kinross
- William Balfour Baikie
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