Burgess (surname)
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Burgess is a surname
Surname
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, occasionally used as a given name
Given name
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List of persons with the surname

  • Abbie Burgess
    Abbie Burgess
    Abbie Burgess was an American lighthouse keeper known for her bravery in tending the Matinicus Rock Light, in Maine, during a raging winter storm in 1856. She tended the light for nearly a month while her father, the head keeper, was away from the island...

     (1839–1892), American lighthouse-keeper
  • Adrienne Burgess
    Adrienne Burgess
    Adrienne Burgess is a British actress, mainly seen on television.Her credits include: Doctor Who , Blake's 7, Terry and June, Just Good Friends Dickens of London and The Bill....

    , British actress
  • Andy Burgess
    Andy Burgess
    Andrew John Blakemore "Andy" Burgess is an English footballer who is currently a player/coach midfielder for Corby Town.-Playing career:...

     (born 1981), English footballer (soccer)
  • Anthony Burgess
    Anthony Burgess
    John Burgess Wilson  – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange is Burgess's most famous novel, though he dismissed it as one of his lesser works...

     (1917–1993), English novelist and critic
  • Ben Burgess
    Ben Burgess
    Benjamin Kieron "Ben" Burgess is an English-born Irish footballer who currently plays for Notts County. He has been capped twice by the Republic of Ireland at Under-21 level.-Early career:...

     (born 1981), English-born footballer (soccer)
  • Bobby Burgess
    Bobby Burgess
    Robert Wilkie "Bobby" Burgess is an American dancer and singer. As a child he was an original Mouseketeer and later in life a regular on the The Lawrence Welk Show.-Early life:...

     (born 1941), American dancer and singer
  • Bruce Burgess
    Bruce Burgess
    Bruce Burgess is a documentary filmmaker.Burgess has written, directed and hosted a series of documentary specials on potentially conspirational subjects like Bigfoot, the Bermuda Triangle, ancient history, alien abductions, the British Royal family, CIA assassinations and global terrorism.In 2002...

    , British documentary filmmaker
  • Bryan Burgess
    Bryan Burgess
    Bryan Burgess is a Canadian curler from Thunder Bay, Ontario. He was a member of the Northern Ontario team at the 2001 Nokia Brier.Burgess was a member of the Al Hackner rink from the late 90s to 2002. In 2001, Burgess won his only Northern Ontario provincial title, playing third for the team. At...

    , Canadian curler
  • Cam Burgess
    Cam Burgess
    Albert 'Cam' Burgess was an English footballer who played as a forward. He played in The Football League for four clubs.-Playing career:...

     (1919–1978), English footballer (soccer)
  • Charles Frederick Burgess
    Charles Frederick Burgess
    Charles Frederick Burgess was an American chemist and engineer. He was founder of the University of Wisconsin-Madison department of Chemical Engineering in 1905, and was a pioneer in the development of electrochemical engineering...

     (1873–1945), American chemist
  • Charlie Burgess
    Charlie Burgess
    Charles Burgess was a former footballer, who played in the Football League for Stoke where he made one hundred and seventy nine appearance. He also played for Manchester City...

     (born 1880), English footballer (soccer)
  • Charlotte Burgess
    Charlotte Burgess
    Charlotte Burgess is a British archer. She is part of the Olympic Team GB Archery team. At the age of 17 she emerged as one of the UK's best junior archers and came close to selection for the 2004 Summer Olympics....

     (born 1987), British archer
  • Clive Burgess
    Clive Burgess
    Robert Clive Burgess was an international rugby union flanker who played for Wales from 1977 to 1982. Burgess was a popular player who had many nicknames some of which were Budgie, Animal and The Steel Claw thanks to his fearless nature and rugged appearance...

     (1950–2006), Welsh rugby union footballer
  • Chris Burgess
    Chris Burgess
    Chris Burgess is an American basketball player. Burgess started his freshman year at Mater Dei High School where he transferred to his local school Woodbridge High School in California and played his remaining high school years. He then attended Duke University and University of Utah...

     (born 1979), American basketball player
  • Claude Bramall Burgess
    Claude Bramall Burgess
    Claude Bramall Burgess , CMG, OBE, MA was the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1958 - 1963....

     (d. 1998), British Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1958–1963
  • Colin Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Daniel Burgess (disambiguation)
  • David Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Daryl Burgess
    Daryl Burgess
    Daryl Burgess is an English footballer who currently plays for Bromsgrove Rovers, where he is also assistant manager....

     (born 1971), English footballer (soccer)
  • Dean R. Burgess
    Dean R. Burgess
    Dean Reid Burgess was a counselor to Charles W. Dahlquist II in the general presidency of the Young Men organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2004 to 2009....

     (born 1946), bishop
  • Dennis Burgess
    Dennis Burgess
    Dennis Burgess is a British television actor. He played the recurring role of Flambeau in Father Brown.-Filmography:* Bluebeard * Massacre in Rome * The Elephant Man -Television roles:* Father Brown* Triangle...

    , British actor
  • Derrick Burgess
    Derrick Burgess
    Derrick Lee Burgess is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles in the third round of the 2001 NFL Draft. He played college football at Mississippi....

    , NFL defensive end for the New England Patriots
  • Dominic Burgess
    Dominic Burgess
    Dominic James Cooper better known by his stage name Dominic Burgess, is a British actor. He is known for his appearances in several TV adverts, Batman Begins and Doctor Who.-Early life:...

     (born 1982), British actor
  • Don Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Dorothy Burgess
    Dorothy Burgess
    Dorothy Burgess was a stage and motion picture actress from Los Angeles, California.-Family, education:She was a niece of Fay Bainter. On her father's side she was related to George Montgomery of Montgomery and Stone. Her grandfather was Henry A. Burgess, Sr. He came to Los Angeles in 1893,...

     (1907–1961), American motion picture actress
  • Edgar Burgess
    Edgar Burgess
    Edgar Richard Burgess FZS was an English rower who competed for Great Britain in the 1912 Summer Olympics....

     (1891–1952), English Olympic rower
  • Edward Burgess
    Edward Burgess
    Edward Burgess was an American yacht designer, born June 30, 1848 in West Sandwich, Massachusetts.Edward is fifth son of Benjamin Franklin Burgess and Cordelia Williams Ellis. The Burgess family were merchants who made their money in the West Indies trade and lost it in 1879...

     (1848–1891), American yacht designer
  • Edward Burgess (British Army officer)
    Edward Burgess (British Army officer)
    General Sir Edward Arthur Burgess KCB OBE is a British Army General who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.-Military career:Educated at Bloxham School, Edward Burgess was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1948....

     (born 1927)
  • Emma Burgess
    Emma Burgess
    Emma Burgess is an American singer-songwriter who released her first album Swim, produced by Rusty Anderson and Ofer Moses, in 2007 on Love Yourself Records. Other musicians featured on Swim are Josh Freese, Joey Waronker and Mike Garson...

    , American singer-songwriter
  • Eric Burgess
    Eric Burgess
    Eric Burgess was an English freelance consultant, lecturer and journalist, who wrote about the Pioneer program of space missions since the first tests in 1957...

     (1920–2005), freelance space consultant
  • Erika Burgess
    Erika Burgess
    Erika Burgess is a New Zealand netball player. Burgess plays for the Southern Steel in the ANZ Championship, having previously played for the Western Flyers and Southern Sting in the National Bank Cup...

     (born 1984), New Zealand netball player
  • Ernest Burgess
    Ernest Burgess
    Ernest Watson Burgess was an urban sociologist born in Tilbury, Ontario. He was educated at Kingfisher College in Oklahoma and continued graduate studies in sociology at the University of Chicago. In 1916, he returned to the University of Chicago, as a faculty member. Burgess was hired as an...

     (1886–1966), urban sociologist at the University of Chicago
  • Franklin D. Burgess
    Franklin D. Burgess
    Franklin D. "Frank" Burgess was an African American standout college basketball player and, later, a United States federal judge.-Early life:Burgess was born in Eudora, Arkansas...

     (1935–2010), American basketball player and federal judge
  • Gelett Burgess
    Gelett Burgess
    Frank Gelett Burgess was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse...

     (1866–1951), U.S. humorist
  • George Burgess
  • Gordon Burgess
    Gordon Burgess
    Gordon Charles Burgess was born 4 October, 1918 in Waihi and 3 September, 2000 in Auckland. He was a New Zealand cricketer who played seven first-class matches for the Auckland Aces. He was the father of Test cricketer Mark Burgess.-External Links:...

     (born 1935), president of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
  • Graham Burgess
    Graham Burgess
    Graham K. Burgess is an English FIDE Master of chess and a noted writer and trainer. He became a FIDE Master at the age of twenty. He attended Birkdale High School in Southport, Merseyside. In 1989 he graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in mathematics...

     (born 1968), English chess master
  • Graham Burgess (cricketer)
    Graham Burgess (cricketer)
    Graham Iefvion Burgess is a former first-class cricketer who made over 450 appearances for Somerset County Cricket Club between 1966 and 1980. A right-arm medium pace bowler and a right-handed lower middle-order hitter, Burgess is described by Cricinfo as "a good old-fashioned county professional"...

     (born 1943), English cricketer
  • Greg Burgess
    Greg Burgess
    Gregory Stewart "Greg" Burgess is a former American college and international swimmer who won a silver medal in the 200-meter individual medley at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain...

     (born 1972), American swimmer
  • Gregory Burgess
    Gregory Burgess
    Gregory Burgess is a Melbourne-based architect. Burgess is especially notable for his buildings for indigenous communities in Australia, and for his participatory design approach which has produced some remarkable and unique buildings....

    , Australian architect
  • Guy Burgess
    Guy Burgess
    Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess was a British-born intelligence officer and double agent, who worked for the Soviet Union. He was part of the Cambridge Five spy ring that betrayed Western secrets to the Soviets before and during the Cold War...

     (1911–1963), British double-agent
  • Haldane Burgess
    Haldane Burgess
    James John Haldane Burgess is a figure in Shetland's cultural history, being a poet, novelist, violinist, and linguist, as well as a socialist. His published works include Rasmie's Büddie, Some Shetland Folk, Tang, The Treasure of Don Andreas, Rasmie's Kit, Rasmie's Smaa Murr, and The Viking...

     (1862–1927), Shetland writer
  • Harry Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Henry Givens Burgess
    Henry Givens Burgess
    Henry Givens Burgess PC was an Irish railway executive and politician.Burgess was born at Finnoe House, County Tipperary. He joined the Dublin and South Eastern Railway as a junior clerk in 1873. In 1878 he transferred to the London and North Western Railway, which also operated in Ireland, with...

     (1859–1937), Irish politician
  • Herbert Burgess
    Herbert Burgess
    Herbert Larry Burgess was an English football player.Born in Openshaw, Manchester, Burgess began his football career with Glossop North End, but soon signed for Manchester City. He made his debut for City on 5 September 1903, playing at left back away to Stoke City on the opening day of the...

     (1883–1954), English football player
  • Ian Burgess
    Ian Burgess
    Ian Burgess is a British former racing driver from England. Ian began in 1950 with a Cooper Formula 3 car and had a successful 1951 season including a win at the Nurburgring before moving up to sports cars and Formula 2. He participated in 20 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on...

     (born 1930), British Formula One driver
  • Iain Burgess
    Iain Burgess
    Iain Burgess was a British record producer and audio engineer. He helped define the sound of the Chicago post-punk music scene in the 1980s and early '90s, working with a number of key underground bands, including Big Black, Naked Raygun, The Effigies, Get Smart!, Ministry, Bloodsport, Pegboy,...

     (d. 2010), British record producer
  • James Bland Burgess
    James Bland Burgess
    Sir James Bland Lamb, 1st Baronet , born James Burges and known as Sir James Burges, Bt, between 1795 and 1821, was a British author, barrister and Member of Parliament.-Background and education:...

     (1752–1824), English writer and politician
  • Janice Burgess
    Janice Burgess
    Janice Burgess is the former key person of Nick Jr.. She is the creator and executive producer of The Backyardigans, a CGI-animated series on Nick Jr. running from 2004 to 2008 about five high-spirited friends and their imaginative, musical journeys....

    , American television producer
  • Jeremy Burgess
    Jeremy Burgess
    Jeremy Burgess , is an Australian motorcycle racing chief engineer, having worked with three world champions: Wayne Gardner, Mick Doohan and Valentino Rossi. He was also a mechanic on Freddie Spencer's team when Spencer won the 500cc World title in 1985...

     (born 1953), Australian motorcycle racing engineer
  • Jim Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Joanne Burgess
    Joanne Burgess
    Joanne Burgess is an Australian football player, who currently plays for Brisbane Roar in the Australian W-League.She has represented Australia at the 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup and the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup....

     (born 1979), Australian footballer (soccer)
  • John Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Joseph Burgess
    Joseph Burgess
    Joseph Burgess was a British journalist and Labour politician.He was born on 3 July 1853 in Failsworth, Lancashire, the third of six children of handloom weavers, and educated at a print works school in Failsworth. He started work in a card-cutting room at the age of six and worked as a cotton...

     (1853–1934), British politician
  • Keith Burgess
    Keith Burgess
    Keith Burgess is an American voice actor. He voiced Akuma in Street Fighter Alpha: The Movie, including Street Fighter Alpha: Generations. He also loaned his voice in the two anime movies Evangelion: Death and Rebirth and The End of Evangelion, including Karas: The Prophecy. He was a staff member...

    , American voice actor
  • Ken Burgess
    Ken Burgess
    Kenneth John Burgess was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He is the longest-serving mayor of Brandon, Manitoba, having held the position from 1979 to 1989....

     (d. 2005), Canadian politician
  • Kevin Burgess
    Kevin Burgess
    Kevin Burgess joined Darlington from Middlesbrough during the 2006–07 campaign. After a number of impressive displays in the reserves Burgess made his debut on the final day of the season against Stockport County....

     (born 1988), British footballer (soccer)
  • Lauren Burgess
    Lauren Burgess
    Lauren Burgess is a New Zealand netball player. Burgess played with the Western Flyers in the National Bank Cup, before being signed with the Central Pulse for the inaugural season of the ANZ Championship. After the Pulse failed to win a game in 2008, the team roster was overhauled and she was not...

     (born 1986), New Zealand netball player
  • Leroy Burgess
    Leroy Burgess
    Leroy Burgess is a prolific singer/recording artist, songwriter, keyboard player and producer. He is related to Thom Bell and Kool & The Gang members Robert "Kool" Bell, Ronald Bell and Amir Bayyan of the Kay-Gees....

    , known as Black Ivory, disco producer
  • Lord Burgess
    Lord Burgess
    Irving Louis Burgie, better known as Lord Burgess, is a songwriter, born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926, or possibly on July 28, 1924. His mother was from Barbados and his father was from Virginia....

    , 20th century American songwriter
  • Lowry Burgess
    Lowry Burgess
    Lowry Burgess is an internationally renowned conceptual and environmental artist and educator. He has been an educator for over forty five years and is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University where he is a Distinguished Fellow in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry...

    , American artist
  • Luke Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Lyndon Burgess
    Lyndon Burgess
    Lyndon Burgess is a Bermudian soccer player who currently plays for Bermuda Hogges in the USL Second Division.-Club:Burgess began his career with Hamilton Parish FC, and played for the team for three years in the Bermudian Premier Division before joining the Bermuda Hogges in the USL Second...

     (born 1980), Bermuda footballer (soccer)
  • Mac Burgess
    Mac Burgess
    Mac Burgess was an English professional football manager who coached French team Le Havre between 1934 and 1935.-References:...

    , English football manager
  • Mark Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Martin Burgess
    Martin Burgess
    Edward Martin Burgess FSA FBHI, born 21 November 1931, known as Martin Burgess, is an English horologist and master clockmaker.-Early life:Burgess was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, between 1944 and 1949, where he was a member of Farfield...

     (born 1931), English clockmaker
  • Melvin Burgess
    Melvin Burgess
    Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's fiction. His first book, The Cry of the Wolf, was published in 1990. He gained a certain amount of notoriety in 1996 with the publication of Junk, which was published in the shadow of the film of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, and dealt with the...

     (born 1954), British author
  • Michael Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Mitchell Burgess
    Mitchell Burgess
    Mitchell Burgess is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer. He worked extensively on the HBO hit-series The Sopranos. He was a creator and executive producer for Blue Bloods. He frequently works with his wife Robin Green.-Career:...

    , American television writer
  • Neale Burgess
    Neale Burgess
    Neale Ronald Burgess is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2006, representing the electorate of Hastings....

     (born 1956), Australian politician
  • Neil Burgess (actor) (born 1966), British actor
  • Neil Burgess (comedian)
    Neil Burgess (comedian)
    Neil Burgess was an American Vaudevillian comedian who specialized in female impersonation of elderly "widders."...

     (1846–1910), American vaudeville comedian
  • Nenita Burgess
    Nenita Burgess
    Nenita Burgess is an Australian football player currently playing for Australian W-League team .- References :...

     (born 1985), Australian footballer (soccer)
  • Nigel Burgess
    Nigel Burgess
    Nigel Allan Burgess was a British single-handed yachtsman, Master Mariner and businessman. He took part in the OSTAR and the Vendée Globe...

     (1942–1992), British yachtsman
  • Norine Burgess
    Norine Burgess
    As a graduate of the University of Calgary and the University of Toronto’s Opera School,mezzo-soprano Norine Burgess received additional training as a member of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble where she appeared in Electra, Suor Angelica, Lulu and Der Rosenkavalier. Ms...

    , Canadian singer
  • Oliver Burgess
    Oliver Burgess
    Oliver Burgess is a professional football player currently playing for Southern league premier side Corby town.Signed from league rivals Kettering Town as the first signing for the 2006-7 campaign...

     (born 1981), English footballer (soccer)
  • Paul Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Pete Burgess
    Pete Burgess
    Peter Burgess is a New Zealand professional basketball player. Burgess previously played for the Otago Nuggets and is close friends with Sharks Forward-Center Gareth Dawson who he has played with.-External links:*...

     (born 1984), New Zealand basketball player
  • Prescott Burgess
    Prescott Burgess
    Prescott Ennis Burgess is an American football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Ravens in the sixth round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He has had three stints with the team. He played college football at Michigan.Burgess has also played for the...

     (born 1984), American football linebacker
  • Reg Burgess
    Reg Burgess
    Reg Burgess is a former Australian rules footballer who played 124 Victorian Football League games for the Essendon Bombers....

     (born 1934), Australian rules footballer
  • Reuben Burgess
    Reuben Burgess
    Rueben Burgess is a British sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was eliminated in the repechages of the K-4 1000 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. Four years later in Barcelona, Burgess was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 1000 m event.-References:*...

     (born 1966), British canoeist
  • Richard Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Robert Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Rodney Burgess
    Rodney Burgess
    Rodney Burgess is an American football tight end who played in the National Football League for the New York Giants....

     (born 1984), American footballer
  • Romelle Burgess
    Romelle Burgess
    Romelle Burgess is a Barbadian international footballer who last played for the New Hampshire Phantoms of the USL Premier Development League.-College:...

     (born 1982), Barbadian footballer (soccer)
  • Ron Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Rudy Burgess
    Rudy Burgess
    Rudolph Donnavon "Rudy" Burgess is a gridiron football wide receiver for the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League. He was signed by the Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent in 2008...

     (born 1984), American footballer
  • Sally Burgess
    Sally Burgess
    Sally Burgess FRCM is a South Africa-born British operatic lyric mezzo-soprano, opera director, and educator. She has been a Fellow and Professor of Vocal Studies at the Royal College of Music since 2004, as well as teaching stagecraft...

     (born 1953), British mezzo-soprano
  • Sam Burgess
    Sam Burgess
    Sam Burgess is an English professional rugby league footballer for the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the National Rugby League...

     (born 1988), English rugby league footballer
  • Samuel Burgess
    Samuel Burgess
    For the English rugby league footballer of the same name see Sam BurgessCaptain Samuel Burgess was a member of Captain William Kidd's crew in 1690 when the Blessed William was seized....

    , 17th century pirate captain
  • Sarah Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Shayne Burgess
    Shayne Burgess
    Shayne Burgess is an English darts player who is one of the few examples of players that has switched from the British Darts Organisation to the Professional Darts Corporation and back - he announced his intention to return to the BDO in early 2007, but remains a competitor in the PDC...

     (1964), English darts player
  • Smoky Burgess
    Smoky Burgess
    Forrest Harrill "Smoky" Burgess was an American professional baseball player, coach and scout. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from 1949 to 1967. Later in his career, he became known for his ability as a pinch hitter, setting the major league career record for career pinch-hits...

     (1927–1991), U.S. Major League Baseball player
  • Sonny Burgess
    Sonny Burgess
    Albert Austin "Sonny" Burgess is an American rockabilly guitarist and singer....

     (born 1931), rockabilly musician
  • Stanley Burgess
    Stanley Burgess
    Stanley Burgess was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.At the 1918 general election, he stood unsuccessfully in the Leith constituency in Scotland. He was elected at the 1922 general election as Member of Parliament for Rochdale in Lancashire, but was defeated at the 1923 election...

     (born 1889), British politician
  • Stuart Burgess
    Stuart Burgess
    Stuart Burgess is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a central defender. He played in the Scottish Premier League with Falkirk. During his career, he played for four different clubs, making more than 350 league appearances altogether.Now living in Perth,...

     (born 1962), Scottish footballer (soccer)
  • Thomas Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Thornton Burgess
    Thornton Burgess
    Thornton Waldo Burgess was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories". He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man...

     (1874–1965), U.S. conservationist and children's author
  • Tim Burgess
    Tim Burgess
    Timothy Allan Burgess is the lead singer of the British rock/indie act The Charlatans. Despite being born in Salford he grew up mostly in Northwich, Cheshire.-Career:...

     (born 1967), lead singer of British band the Charlatans
  • Tim Burgess (Seattle)
    Tim Burgess (Seattle)
    Tim Burgess is a member of the Seattle City Council, former journalist, Seattle Police Department detective and international humanitarian worker. Burgess was elected in November, 2007 with 64% of the vote. He assumed office on January 1, 2008 and his term expires December 31, 2011...

    , member of the Seattle City Council
  • Timothy Mark Burgess
    Timothy Mark Burgess
    Timothy Mark "Tim" Burgess is an American lawyer and judge. He is currently a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Alaska....

     (born 1956), American lawyer
  • Tituss Burgess
    Tituss Burgess
    Tituss Burgess is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in four Broadway musicals, and is known for his very high tenor voice.-Biography:...

    , American actor
  • Tyrell Burgess
    Tyrell Burgess
    Tyrell Burgess is a Bermudian footballer, currently playing for Bermuda Hogges in the USL Premier Development League.-College and amateur:...

     (born 1986), Bermudan footballer (soccer)
  • Warren Randolph Burgess
    Warren Randolph Burgess
    Warren Randolph Burgess was an American banker and diplomat who served as ambassador to NATO from 1957 to 1961....

     (1889–1978), an American banker and diplomat
  • William Burgess (disambiguation)
  • Wilma Burgess
    Wilma Burgess
    Wilma Burgess was an American country music singer. She rose to fame in the mid 1960s and charted fifteen singles on the Billboard C&W charts between 1965 and 1975.-Background:...

     (1939–2003), American country music singer

Fictional characters

  • Alex Burgess, fictional character from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman

List of persons with the given name

  • Burgess Sidney Gaither
    Burgess Sidney Gaither
    Burgess Sidney Gaither was a prominent North Carolina politician and attorney who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.-Early life and education:...

     (1807–1892), American politician
  • Burgess Gardner
    Burgess Gardner
    Burgess Gardner is a noted jazz musician, educator, and composer. Born in 1936, he has played the trumpet with jazz legends such as Count Basie, Horace Silver, and Louie Bellson, Ray Charles; as of 2003, the Burgess Gardner Orchestra performed regularly in Chicago.He is particularly noted for hard...

     (born 1936), jazz musician
  • Burgess Jenkins
    Burgess Jenkins
    Burgess Jenkins is a film actor known for work in the 2000 film Remember The Titans opposite Academy Award winner Denzel Washington; as Hilary Swank's husband David Winter in The Reaping...

     (born 1973), film actor
  • Burgess Meredith
    Burgess Meredith
    Oliver Burgess Meredith , known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director...

     (1907–1997), U.S. actor
  • Burgess Owens
    Burgess Owens
    Clarence Burgess Owens is a retired safety who played ten seasons in the National Football League for the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders...

     (born 1951), American footballer
  • Burgess Whitehead
    Burgess Whitehead
    Burgess Urquhart "Whitey" Whitehead was a Major League Baseball second baseman from 1933 to 1946. He played for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, and Pittsburgh Pirates.-Biography:...

    (1910–1993), American baseball player

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