Fairfax (name)
Fairfax is both a surname of English origin which means "fair hair", and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Alan Fairfax, Australian cricketer
- Betty Fairfax, American educator, counselor, and philanthropist
- Daphne Fairfax, a British comedian
- Edward Fairfax, translator
- Henry Fairfax (Royal Navy officer), British Admiral and Naval Commander K.C.B., F.R.G.S.,
- James Fairfax, Australian businessman and philanthropist
- Jean E. Fairfax, American educator, civil rights worker, community organizer, and philanthropist
- John Fairfax (disambiguation), name of several notable people
- Justin Fairfax, American Democratic politician and lieutenant governor of Virginia
- Lance Fairfax, New Zealand baritone in Australia
- Lettice Fairfax
- Michael Fairfax, English sculptor
- Nathaniel Fairfax, English divine and physician
- Robert Fairfax (disambiguation), several people:
- Ruth Fairfax, first president of the Queensland Country Women's Association
- Russell Fairfax, Australian rugby league footballer
- Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, parliamentarian general in the English Civil War
- Thomas Fairfax (Gilling), 16th-century owner of Gilling Castle, North Yorkshire
- Warwick Oswald Fairfax,, Australian businessman, journalist and playwright
- Warwick Fairfax, Australian businessman, son of W. O. Fairfax
- William Fairfax, 18th-century colonial official and plantation owner in Virginia
- William George Fairfax, a vice-admiral in the Royal Navy
- Lord Fairfax of Cameron, a title in the Peerage of Scotland
- Viscount Fairfax of Emley, a title in the Peerage of Ireland
- Fairfax M. Cone, American businessman
- Fairfax Downey, American writer and military historian
- Fairfax Fenwick, New Zealand cricketer
- Fairfax Harrison, American president of Southern Railway and author
- Sir Fairfax Moresby, Royal Navy officer
- Gavin Fairfax, a character played by John D. Collins on the British sitcom series 'Allo 'Allo!
- Colonel Fairfax, a character in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Yeomen of the Guard.
- Mrs. Fairfax, a character in Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre
- Jane Fairfax, a character in Jane Austen's novel Emma
- Gwendolyn Fairfax, a character in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest
- Abigail Fairfax, a character from the 2022 adventure comedy film The Lost City, who is an egotistical, eccentric billionaire seeking to find the treasure of the eponymous lost city.