George Burgess may refer to:
- George Burgess (bishop) (1809–1866), American clergyman and religious leader, first bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Maine
- George Henry Burgess (1831–1905), English-born landscape painter, wood engraver and lithographer
- George Farmer Burgess (1861–1919), American Democratic politician
- George K. Burgess (1874–1932), American physicist, scientific writer and translator, expert on metallurgy
- George H. Burgess (born 1949), American shark expert and author
- George Burgess (rugby league) (born 1992), South Sydney rugby league player
- George Burgess (entrepreneur) One of the UK's youngest serial entrepreneurs
Famous quotes containing the words george and/or burgess:
“Take one of those every half-mile and call me if there is any change.”
—Robert Pirosh, U.S. screenwriter, George Seaton, George Oppenheimer, and Sam Wood. Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush (Groucho Marx)
“We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilisation.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)