title: Telfair
text: # 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
  