Fairbairn

Fairbairn may refer to:

As a surname

• Andrew Fairbairn (disambiguation), several people
• Bill Fairbairn (William John Fairbairn, 1947-), Canadian ice hockey player.
• Bruce Fairbairn (1949-1999), Canadian musician, songwriter and producer.
• Carolyn Fairbairn, Former member of the BBC Executive Board. Director of corporate development and strategy at ITV.
• Charles Fairbairn, Canadian politician, member for Victoria South (1890-1896)
• David Fairbairn (1917-1994), Australian politician and cabinet minister. Nephew of James Fairbairn.
• Douglas Fairbairn, Co-developer of the Xerox NoteTaker, one of the first portable computers.
• Douglas Fairbairn, Author of the novel Shoot.
• Esmée Fairbairn - see Esmée Fairbairn Charitable Trust
• George Fairbairn (disambiguation), several people
• Ian Fairbairn (1896-1968), British financier and rower
• Ian 'Walter' Fairbairn, English folk musician
• Ivo Fairbairn-Crawford, British athlete who competed in 1908 Olympics. (800m & 1500m)
• James Fairbairn (1897-1940), Australian Politician. Minister for Air and Civil Aviation. Killed in the Canberra air disaster, 1940.
• James Fairbairn, Author of Fairbairn's Book of Crests of Families of Great Britain and Ireland, (2 Vols.) T.C. & E.C. Jack, London, 1905.
• Jean Fairbairn, fictional reporter in Lillian Stewart Carl's Jean Fairbairn/Alasdair Cameron series of novels.
• John Fairbairn, Author and translator. Authority on the games of Go and Shogi.
• John Fairbairn (educator), Educator, newspaper proprietor and politician in the Cape Colony; founder of Old Mutual plc
• Joyce Fairbairn (1939-), Canadian senator and cabinet minister.
• Nicholas Fairbairn (1933-1995), British Politician.
• Patrick Fairbairn (1805-1874), Scottish theologian
• Rhea Fairbairn (1890-1953), Canadian amateur tennis player.
• Robert A. Fairbairn, part owner of American thoroughbred racehorse High Quest.
• Ronald Fairbairn (William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn, 1889-1964), British psychoanalyst, father of Nicholas Fairbairn.
• Steve Fairbairn (1862-1938), Australian born rowing coach active in Cambridge and London.
• Sydney Fairbairn MC (1892–1943), English cricketer and British Army officer.
• Thomas Fairbairn, 2nd Baronet (1823-1891), English industrialist and art collector
• Thomas McCulloch Fairbairn (politician) (1840-1874), Canadian politician.
• Thomas McCulloch Fairbairn, Invented (in 1922) an artificial green for miniature golf which led to the "American minigolf boom of the early 20th century".
• William Fairbairn (Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick, 1789-1874), Scottish engineer.
• William E. Fairbairn (1885-1960), British soldier, police officer, and WW II commando trainer.
• William John Fairbairn (1947-) - see Bill Fairbairn.
• William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn (1889-1964) - see Ronald Fairbairn.
• Fairbairn - Mythical heroic progenitor of the Clan Armstrong who, dressed in full armour, lifted the king of Scotland onto his own horse with one arm.

Other

• Esmée Fairbairn Charitable Trust, an independent grantmaking foundation in England
• Fairbairn Airbase, RAAF Base Fairbairn, Defence Establishment Fairbairn, Fairbairn (Business Park) and Fairbairn, Canberra, at different times, all refer to the same piece of land in Canberra named after James Fairbairn.
• Fairbairn baronets of Ardwick, a British baronetcy
• Fairbairn College, a co-educational high school in Cape Town, South Africa
• Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour, an English company involved in landmark legal decision Fibrosa Spolka Akcyjna v. Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour
• Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife, sometimes referred to as "a Fairbairn"
• The Fairbairn Hobbit family, in The Lord of the Rings, fictional descendants of Elanor Gardner
• William Fairbairn & Sons, a locomotive manufacturer established 1839 in Manchester, England
• Fairbairn Settlement, an historic village of shipwrecked hunters on Marion Island in the SW Indian Ocean