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).

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