Telfair may refer to:
People
Given name
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Telfair Hodgson (1840–1893), American academic administrator
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Telfair Hodgson Jr.
Telfair Hodgson Jr., also known as Telfair Hodgson, (September 14, 1876 – September 16, 1952) was an American businessman and academic administrator. He was the treasurer of Sewanee: The University of the South from 1908 to 1949. He was also th ...
(1876–1952), American academic administrator, banker, developer
Surname
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Charles Telfair
Charles Edward Telfair (1778 in Belfast – 14 July 1833 in Port Louis) was an Irish botanist.
Early life and career
Telfair was the son of a Belfast schoolmaster. He studied chemistry under Joseph Black and later qualified as a medical doct ...
(1778–1833), Irish botanist
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Edward Telfair (1735–1807), multi-term governor of Georgia, U.S.
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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
Richard Jessup (January 2, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia - October 22, 1982 in Nokomis, Florida) was an American author and screenwriter. He also wrote under the name of Richard Telfair.
Biography
Mr. Jessup spent his early years in and out of a l ...
(1925–1982)
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Sebastian Telfair (born 1985), American basketball player
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Thomas Telfair (1786–1818), United States Representative from Georgia
Places
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Charles Telfair Institute, a tertiary education institution in Mauritius
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Telfair County, Georgia
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Telfair Museums, the first art museum in the American South, in Savannah GA
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Telfair Academy, early 19th-century building housing historic art
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Telfair Arms Apartments, formerly Telfair Hospital
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Telfair, Sugar Land, a community in Texas
Ships
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USS ''Telfair'' (APA-210), a ''Haskell''-class attack transport
* ''Gussie Telfair'', a merchant steamship built in 1862, formerly
USS ''Gertrude''
Other uses
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Telfair's skink
''Leiolopisma telfairii'', also known commonly as the Round Island ground skink, the Round Island skink, and Telfair's skink, is a species of lizard in the family Scincidae. The species is endemic to Round Island, one of the islands of Mauri ...
, a Mauritian lizard
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