Telfair

Telfair may refer to:

People

Given name

• Telfair Hodgson (1840–1893), American academic administrator
• Telfair Hodgson Jr. (1876–1952), American academic administrator, banker, developer

Surname

• Charles Telfair (1778–1833), Irish botanist
• Edward Telfair (1735–1807), multi-term governor of Georgia, U.S.
• Mary Telfair (1791–1875), benefactor of Savannah's Telfair Museums and Mary Telfair Women's Hospital
• Richard Telfair, pen-name of American writer Richard Jessup (1925–1982)
• Sebastian Telfair (born 1985), American basketball player
• Thomas Telfair (1786–1818), United States Representative from Georgia

Places

• Charles Telfair Institute, a tertiary education institution in Mauritius
• Telfair County, Georgia
• Telfair Museums, the first art museum in the American South, in Savannah GA
  • Telfair Academy, early 19th-century building housing historic art
  • Telfair Arms Apartments, formerly Telfair Hospital
• Telfair, Sugar Land, a community in Texas

Ships

• USS Telfair (APA-210), a Haskell-class attack transport
• Gussie Telfair, a merchant steamship built in 1862, formerly USS Gertrude

Other uses

• Telfair's skink, a Mauritian lizard