title: Halifax (name)
text: # Halifax (name)
  
  Halifax is an English surname.
  
  Notable people and characters with the name include:
  
  ## Title
  
  * Earl of Halifax, a British title created four times and held by, among others:
     * Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (1661–1715), English poet and statesman
     * George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (c. 1684–1739), British politician
     * George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1716–1771)
     * Charles Wood, 1st Viscount Halifax (1800–1885), British Whig politician
     * Charles Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax (1839–1934), British ecumenist
     * Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881–1959), British Conservative politician
     * Charles Wood, 2nd Earl of Halifax (1912–1980), British politician and peer
     * Peter Wood, 3rd Earl of Halifax (born 1944), British peer and Conservative politician
  * Marquess of Halifax, a title in the Peerage of England created in 1682
     * George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695), English statesman, writer and politician
     * William Savile, 2nd Marquess of Halifax (1665–1700)
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Joan Halifax (born 1942), Zen Buddhist roshi
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * John Halifax, central character of the novel John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)
  