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