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'Sir James Balfour of Denmyine, 1st Baronet', (c.1600–c.1658) of Perth and Kinross, Scotland, Scottish annalist and antiquary.
He was well acquainted with Sir William Segar and with William Dugdale, to whose ''Monasticon'' he contributed. He was knighted by Charles I of Scotland in 1630, was made Lord Lyon King of Arms in the same year, and in 1633 baronet of Kinnaird. He was removed from his office of king-at-arms by Oliver Cromwell and died in 1657/8.
Some of his numerous works are preserved in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, together with his correspondence, from which rich collection Haig published Balfour's ''Annales of Scotland'' in 4 vols. 8 vo (1824 – 1825).