Balfour may refer to:

People

  • Balfour (surname), a Scottish family name
  • Balfour (given name), a list of people with the name

Places

Canada

  • Balfour, British Columbia, an unincorporated community
  • Balfour, one of the townships that merged to form Rayside-Balfour, Ontario, a town
  • Mount Balfour, on the border between British Columbia and Alberta

New Zealand

  • Balfour, New Zealand, a town
  • Balfour River

Scotland

  • Balfour, Aberdeenshire, a settlement
  • Balfour, Orkney, a village

South Africa

  • Balfour, Eastern Cape, a town
  • Balfour, Mpumalanga, a town

United States

  • Balfour, Iowa, an unincorporated community
  • Balfour, North Dakota, a city
  • Balfour, North Carolina, an unincorporated community and census-designated place

Elsewhere

  • Balfour Town, Salt Cay, the capital of Salt Cay, Turks Islands
  • Mount Balfour (Antarctica)

Buildings

  • Beit Aghion, the residence of the Israeli prime minister, colloquially named "Balfour" after one of the streets that runs alongside it
  • Castle Balfour, Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
  • Balfour Castle, Orkney, Scotland
  • Balfour Castle, Angus, Scotland
  • Balfour Building, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Companies

  • Balfour Beatty, a British construction company
  • Balfour Williamson, a former shipping company based in Liverpool, England, later an export confirming house and freight forwarding company
  • L.G. Balfour Company, an American company specializing in school memorabilia

Schools

  • Balfour Collegiate, a public high school in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Sir Graham Balfour School, a coeducational secondary school and sixth form in Stafford, England
  • Gymnasia Balfour, the former name of Ironi Alef High School in Tel Aviv, Israel

Titles

  • Earl of Balfour, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
  • Lord Balfour of Burleigh, a title in the Peerage of Scotland
  • Baron Balfour of Glenawley, an extinct title in the Peerage of Ireland
  • Baron Balfour of Inchrye, an extinct title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
  • Balfour baronets, three titles, one (extinct) in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two (one extant) in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Other uses

  • , a Second World War II Royal Navy frigate
  • , a Canadian ferry
  • Balfour v Attorney-General, a 1919 New Zealand tort law case
  • Balfour v. Balfour, a 1919 case in English contract law
  • Balfour Biological Laboratory for Women, a laboratory attached to the University of Cambridge from 1884 to 1914
  • Balfour Hospital, a rural general hospital in Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland

See also

  • Balfour Declaration (disambiguation)
  • Balfour Formation, a geological formation in South Africa
  • Balfour House, an antebellum mansion in Vicksburg, Mississippi, United States
  • , a British refrigerated cargo ship built during the Second World War
  • Balfour Strad, a fake Stradivarius violin
  • Balfours, an Australian bakery