title: Burdon (surname)
text: # Burdon (surname)
  
  Burdon is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
  
  ## Surname
  
  * Albert Burdon (1900–1981), British film actor
  * Alex Burdon (1879–1943), Australian rugby league and rugby union footballer
  * Allan Burdon (1914–2001), Australian politician
  * Chris Burdon, sound engineer
  * Eric Burdon (born 1941), English singer
  * Glen Burdon (born 1954), Canadian ice-hockey player
  * Hannah Burdon (1800–1877) English writer of novels
  * John Burdon (1866–1933), Governor-General of British Honduras
  * John Burdon-Sanderson (1828–1905), English physiologist
  * John Shaw Burdon (1826–1907), English missionary to China
  * Josh Burdon (born 1992), Australian racing driver
  * Philip Burdon (born 1939), New Zealand politician and lawyer
  * Randal Mathews Burdon (1896–1965), New Zealand soldier, sheepfarmer and historian
  * Rowland Burdon (died 1838) (1757–1838), English landowner and politician
  * Rowland Burdon (Sedgefield MP) (1857–1944), English landowner and politician
  * William Burdon (1764–1818) an English academic, mineowner and writer
  * William Burdon (MP) an English politician
  
  ## Middle name
  
  * George Burdon McKean (1888–1926), English-Canadian soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  * Robert Burdon Stoker (1859–1919), British shipping magnate and politician
  * Samuel Burdon Ellis (1787–1865), British officer in the Royal Marines
  