John Balfour (1820 – 21 March 1875) was a Station owner and Member of the Queensland Legislative Council.

[1] John Balfour was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1820 to Melville Balfour and his wife Joanna (née Brunton) and was the uncle of Robert Louis Stevenson.

He arrived in Queensland around 1846 and, along with his brother, became Lessees of Colinton Station, Moreton.

[1] The locations of stations shown above refer to regions by which parts of the state were known at the time.

They do not necessarily relate to current or former locality or local authority names.Balfour was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council on 1 May 1860 and resigned his seat in 1864.