title: Burney (surname)
text: # Burney (surname)
  
  Burney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Amari Burney (born 2000), American football player
  * Ansar Burney (born 1956), Pakistani-Arab human rights activist
  * Cecil Burney (1858–1929), British admiral
  * Charles Burney (disambiguation), several people
  * Christopher Burney (1917–1980), British spy during World War II
  * Clarence A. Burney (1876–1933), Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri
  * Dennistoun Burney (1888–1968), British engineer and inventor
  * Edward Francis Burney (1760–1848), English artist and illustrator
  * Frances Burney (1752–1840), English novelist and diarist
  * Henry Burney (1792–1845), British agent, ambassador of the East India Company
  * James Burney (1750–1821), British admiral
  * Linda Burney (born 1957), Australian politician
  * Sarah Burney (1772–1844), novelist, known as S.H. Burney
  * S. M. H. Burney (Sayed Muzaffar Hussain Burney, 1923–2014), Indian civil servant
  * Venetia Burney (1918–2009), namer of the dwarf planet Pluto
  