Jeremy Ross Balfour (born 11 March 1967) is a Scottish independent politician, baptist minister and solicitor who has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothian region since 2016.

Having been first elected as a Conservative, Balfour resigned from the party in August 2025, citing disagreements over Russell Findlay's leadership.

Balfour was born in Edinburgh in 1967, the third of four children of Ian and Joyce Balfour.

Balfour attended the independent Edinburgh Academy and has spoken about the impact of his disability on his childhood. In 2005 Balfour praised his parents and teachers saying that they got the correct balance "between pushing me to do things and when I could not, finding other ways of getting me involved. For example I could not play rugby but I was made touch judge".

Balfour came from a family which included several lawyers and decided to pursue a legal career so then studied at the University of Edinburgh. He trained as a solicitor. After working as a solicitor, he studied at London Bible College to become a Baptist minister in 1995 and subsequently worked as an assistant minister at Morningside Baptist Church, where he met his wife. Around this time Balfour also worked as a lobbyist for the Evangelical Alliance.

Balfour previously stood in Edinburgh East and Musselburgh in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election and Central Fife in the 2001 UK General Election.

Balfour was elected to City of Edinburgh Council, representing the Corstorphine/Murrayfield ward from 2007 and did not stand for re-election in 2017 after being elected to Holyrood.

In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Balfour stood as the Conservative candidate for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, where he came third with 6,267 votes (18.1%). He was instead elected from the Lothian regional list.