Telfair
# 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
