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)

1. Halifax
2. Halifax, Nova Scotia
3. Halifax (bank)
4. Halifax, West Yorkshire
5. Halifax County
6. Halifax Mooseheads
7. Earl of Halifax
8. Halifax Stanfield International Airport
9. Halifax Resolves
10. FC Halifax Town
11. Halifax Thunderbirds
12. Halifax Town A.F.C.
13. Handley Page Halifax
14. Joan Halifax
15. Halifax Explosion
16. Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
17. CFB Halifax
18. Halifax Transit
19. HFX Wanderers FC
20. Halifax-class frigate