title: Balch
text: # Balch
  
  Balch may refer to:
  
  ## People with the surname
  
  ### Academics
  
  * Herbert E. Balch (1869–1958), British archaeologist and caver
  * Jennifer Balch American wildfire scientist
  * Pamela Balch, president of West Virginia Wesleyan College
  * Reg Balch (1894–1994), British Canadian photographer and scientist
  * Robert Balch (born 1945), American sociologist
  * Stephen Balch, American scholar
  * Thomas Balch (historian) (1821–1877), American historian
  
  ### Military
  
  * George Beall Balch (1821–1908), American naval officer
  * John Henry Balch (1896–1980), US Navy
  * Joseph Pope Balch (1822–1872), American Civil War veteran of Rhode Island
  
  ### Others
  
  * Albert V. Balch (1828–1915), American politician
  * Antony Balch (1937–1980), British film director
  * Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961), American pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient
  * John Balch, builder of the John Balch House (1679), in Beverly, Massachusetts
  * Oscar B. Balch, American decorator who built the Oscar B. Balch House (1911) by Frank Lloyd Wright
  * Stephen Bloomer Balch (1747–1833), American Presbyterian minister
  
  ## Places
  
  * Balch (crater), on Venus
  * Balkh, alternatively Balch, an ancient city in Afghanistan
  * Balch Cave in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, England
  * Balch Creek in Portland, Oregon
  * Balch Fieldhouse, arena in Boulder, Colorado
  * Balch Hall, at Cornell University
  * Balch House (Cincinnati, Ohio), a registered historic building
  * Balch Pond, on the Maine-New Hampshire border
  * Balch Springs, Texas
  
  ## Vessels
  
  * USS Balch (DD-363)
  * USS Balch (DD-50)
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Balch & Bingham, a law firm in Birmingham, Alabama
  * Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
  