People
- Lord Haliburton of Dirleton, an extinct Lordship of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland
- Arthur Haliburton, 1st Baron Haliburton (1832–1907), a British civil servant
- Brenton Halliburton (1774–1860), second Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
- Erle P. Halliburton (1892–1957), founder of the oil and luggage companies
- George Haliburton (1616–1665), Bishop of Dunkeld
- George Haliburton (1635–1715), Bishop of Aberdeen
- Jeff Halliburton (born 1949), American basketball player
- Mariotta Haliburton, Lady Home, 16th-century Scottish noblewoman
- Richard Halliburton (1900–1939), American writer and adventurer
- Richard Bruce Bernadotte Miller (born 1940), Baron of Jedburgh Forest (Roxburgh) and Baron of Haliburton and Lambden (Berwickshire)
- Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865), a Canadian writer, lawyer, and businessman; MP in both Nova Scotia and England
- Walter de Haliburton, 1st Lord Haliburton of Dirleton, 15th-century Lord High Treasurer of Scotland
- William Hersey Otis Haliburton (1767–1829), lawyer, judge, and political figure in Nova Scotia
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