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. (1876–1952), American academic administrator, banker, developer
Surname
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Charles Telfair (1778–1833), Irish botanist
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Edward Telfair
Edward Telfair (1735 – September 17, 1807) was a Scottish-born American Founding Father, politician and slave trader who served as the governor of Georgia from 1786 to 1787 and again from 1790 to 1793. He was a member of the Continental Congre ...
(1735–1807), multi-term governor of Georgia, U.S.
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(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
Jessup spent his early years in and out of a loca ...
(1925–1982)
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Sebastian Telfair
Sebastian Telfair (born June 9, 1985) is an American former professional basketball player. He has played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Chinese Basketball Association. Telfair was picked thirteenth overall in the 2004 NBA ...
(born 1985), American basketball player
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Thomas Telfair
Thomas Telfair (March 2, 1780 – February 18, 1818) was a United States representative from Georgia. Born in Savannah, the third of four sons of Governor Edward Telfair, he graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1805. He went on to study l ...
(1786–1818), United States Representative from Georgia
Places
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Telfair County, Georgia
Telfair County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 12,477. The largest city and county seat is McRae-Helena.
In 2009, researchers from the Fernbank Museum of N ...
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Telfair Museums
Telfair Museums, in the historic district of Savannah, Georgia, was the first public art museum in the Southern United States. Founded through the bequest of Mary Telfair (1791–1875), a prominent local citizen, and operated by the Georgia His ...
, 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
Telfair is a planned community located in Sugar Land, Texas, United States.Wollam, Allison.Newland to transform prison land into Telfair" ''Houston Business Journal''. Sunday February 27, 2005. Retrieved on October 2, 2011. It is built on former ...
, 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, a Mauritian lizard
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