Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaird

Sir James Balfour, 1st Baronet of Denmilne and Kinnaid (c. 1600 – 1657), of Perth and Kinross, Scotland, was a Scottish annalist and antiquary.

He was arbitrarily removed from his office of Lord Lyon by Oliver Cromwell and died in 1657.

[1] Some of his numerous works are preserved in the Advocates' Library at Edinburgh, together with his correspondence, from which rich collection James Haig published Balfour's Annales of Scotland in four volumes (1824–1825).

James Maidment also extracted papers from the collection in order to publish them.

[4] Many of his manuscripts was purchased by the Faculty of Advocates in 1698 and are now in the National Library of Scotland.