Sir Francis Tanfield (born c. 1565, date of death unknown) was Proprietary governor of the South Falkland colony (in present-day Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland, his cousin's husband.
Tanfield was to establish a colony at Renews and left England in 1623 with an unknown number of colonists.
The colony was still in existence in 1626 when it was visited by Sir Richard Whitbourne but the settlers likely returned to England shortly afterwards.
By 1630, Tanfield was back in England about to embark to Ireland on a mission for King Charles I.
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