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United States

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Fairfax, California Fairfax is an List of cities in California, incorporated town in Marin County, California, Marin County, California, United States. Fairfax is located west-northwest of San Rafael, California, San Rafael, at an elevation of . The population w ...
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Fairfax Avenue Fairfax Avenue is a street in the north central area of the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. It runs from La Cienega Boulevard in Culver City at its southern end to Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood on its northern end. From ...
, a major thoroughfare in Los Angeles, California *
Fairfax District, Los Angeles The Fairfax District is a neighborhood in the Central Los Angeles, Central region of Los Angeles, California. Historically the Fairfax District has been a center of the History of the Jews in Los Angeles, Jewish community in Los Angeles. It is ...
, California, centered on Fairfax Avenue * Fairfax, Georgia * Fairfax, Indiana * Fairfax, Iowa * Fairfax District (Kansas City, Kansas), an industrial area * Fairfax, Minnesota * Fairfax, Missouri * Fairfax, Ohio, a village in Hamilton County * Fairfax, Cleveland, Ohio, a neighborhood * Fairfax, Highland County, Ohio * Fairfax, Oklahoma * Fairfax, South Carolina * Fairfax, South Dakota * Fairfax, Vermont, a New England town ** Fairfax (CDP), Vermont, the main village in the town *
Fairfax, Virginia Fairfax ( ) is an independent city (United States), independent city in Virginia and the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia, in the United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 24,146. Fairfax is pa ...
, an independent city *
Fairfax County, Virginia Fairfax County, officially the County of Fairfax, is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia. With a population of 1,150,309 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the most p ...
, surrounding the city of Fairfax * Fairfax Station, Virginia * Fairfax, West Virginia *
Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park Fairfax Stone Historical Monument State Park is a West Virginia state park commemorating the Fairfax Stone, a surveying, surveyor's marker and boundary marker, boundary stone at the source of the North Branch Potomac River, North Branch of the P ...
, West Virginia


Elsewhere

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Division of Fairfax The Division of Fairfax is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The current MP is Ted O'Brien (Australian politician), Ted O'Brien of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party. ...
, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland *
Fairfax, New Zealand Fairfax is a town in the Southland region of New Zealand's South Island The South Island ( , 'the waters of Pounamu, Greenstone') is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand by surface area, the others being the smaller but m ...
, a town in the Southland region


People

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Fairfax (name) Fairfax is both a surname of English (Yorkshire and Northumberland, with a few branches later settling in Scotland) origin which means "fair hair", and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: * Alan Fairfax (1906–1955), Aust ...
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Lord Fairfax of Cameron Lord Fairfax of Cameron is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. Despite holding a Scottish peerage, the Lords Fairfax of Cameron are members of an ancient Yorkshire family, of which the Fairfax baronets of The Holmes are members of another branc ...
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Viscount Fairfax of Emley Viscount Fairfax of Emley, in the County of Tipperary, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 10 February 1629 for Sir Thomas Fairfax, previously Member of Parliament for Hedon. The fifth Viscount was Lord Lieutenant of the No ...


Other uses

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Fairfax Academy Fairfax Academy (formerly Fairfax School) is a secondary school with academy status in the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham. The school was established in 1959. The school has a sixth-form. History The School opened in 195 ...
, a secondary school in Sutton Coldfield, England *
Fairfax (White Pine, Tennessee) Fairfax is a historic mansion in White Pine, Jefferson County, Tennessee, USA. History The mansion was completed in 1840. It was built by Lawson D. Franklin (1801–1861), Tennessee's first millionaire, for his son, Isaac White Rodgers Frank ...
, a mansion on the US National Register of Historic Places *
Fairfax University Fairfax University was an unaccreditedSeOregon Office of Degree Authorization List of Unaccredited colleges anInstitutions Whose Degrees are Illegal to Use in Texas distance-learning institution established in Louisiana in 1986 and discontinued ...
, a former unaccredited distance-learning institution *
University of Fairfax The University of Fairfax is an institution of higher education headquartered in Salem, Virginia. It offers online graduate degrees (Masters and Doctorates) in cybersecurity, cloud computing, computer science and engineering, and business as we ...
, an institution of higher education headquartered in Salem, Virginia * Hellespont Fairfax, the largest double-hulled supertanker *
Fairfax Media Fairfax Media was a media (communication), media company in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties. The company was founded by John Fairfax as John Fairfax and Sons, who purchased ''The ...
, a defunct Australian-based media company focusing on newspapers *
Fairfax Financial Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is a Canadian financial holding company based in Toronto, Ontario, engaged in property, casualty, insurance and reinsurance, investment management, and insurance claims management. The company operates primari ...
, a Canadian-based financial services holding company * General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant, Kansas City, Kansas * Fairfax House, a Georgian town-house, now a museum, in York, England * Fairfax Christian School, a Christian school in Vienna, Virginia * Fairfax (TV series), a 2021 animation TV show * English ship ''Fairfax'' (1650), an English frigate, destroyed by fire in 1653 * English ship ''Fairfax'' (1653), an English frigate built to replace the 1650 ship of the same name


See also

* Fairfax High School (disambiguation) {{disambiguation, geo