Balfour (surname)
Balfour is a Scottish surname.
Balfour commonly refers to Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905, 1st Earl of Balfour and later Foreign Secretary.
Balfour may also refer to:Earls of Balfour
- Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour, Arthur's brother and also a Conservative politician
Barons Kinross
- John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, British politician
- Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross, British historian
Balfours of Balbirnie
- Robert Balfour, 4th of Balbirnie
- Robert Balfour, 6th of Balbirnie, cavalry officer
Balfours of Whittingehame
- James Balfour , Scottish nabob, landowner and Tory politician
- James Maitland Balfour, Scottish politician
- Eustace Balfour, Scottish architect and aide-de-camp to King Edward VII
- Francis Maitland Balfour, biologist
- Lady Eve Balfour, English pioneer of organic farming
Others
- Alexander Balfour
- Andrew Balfour, Scottish medical officer, author and international rugby player
- Constance Balfour, American singer
- David Balfour
- * David A. Balfour, Canadian politician
- * David Paton Balfour, New Zealand sheepfarmer, station manager, roading supervisor and diarist
- Donald Balfour, Canadian surgeon
- Edward Balfour, Scottish surgeon and orientalist in India
- Eric Balfour, American actor
- Evan Balfour, Scottish footballer
- Fiona Balfour, Australian business executive in the field of information technology
- Frederic H. Balfour, British essayist and translator
- George William Balfour, Scottish physician
- Grant Balfour, baseball player
- Harold Balfour, 1st Baron Balfour of Inchrye, British World War I fighter ace and Conservative politician
- H. Balfour Gardiner, British composer
- Honor Balfour, British politician and journalist
- Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour, Scottish botanist
- James Balfour , Canadian architect from Hamilton, Ontario
- James Balfour
- Major General James Balfour, British soldier
- James Balfour , Newfoundland Church of England clergyman
- James Balfour , New Zealand marine engineer
- James Balfour , Scottish advocate and philosopher
- James Balfour, Lord Pittendreich, Scottish judge and politician
- Sir James Balfour of Denmilne and Kinnaird, 1st Baronet, Scottish annalist and antiquary, Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1650–1654
- Sir James Balfour Paul, Scottish heraldist, Lord Lyon King of Arms from 1890–1926
- John Hutton Balfour, Scottish botanist
- Mabel Balfour, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist
- William Balfour, English Civil War general
