Balfour

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

• HMS Balfour, a Second World War II Royal Navy frigate
• MV Balfour, 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

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