John Burgess

John Burgess may refer to:

  • John Bagnold Burgess (1829-1897), English painter
  • John Burgess (1563-1635), English Puritan clergyman, also John Burges
  • John Burgess (political scientist), American political scientist
  • John Burgess (TV host), Australian television personality
  • John Burgess (cricketer)
  • John Cart Burgess (died 1863), English painter
  • John Wesley Burgess (1907–1990), Canadian Member of Parliament
  • John Burgess (bagpiper) (1934–2005), Scottish musician
  • John P. Burgess, professor of philosophy at Princeton University
  • John Melville Burgess, 12th Bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts. See List of Episcopal bishops, and Central High School, Grand Rapids
  • John Burgess (MP) for Maldon (UK Parliament constituency)

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or burgess:

    “How soon I may ride the whole world about;
    And at the third question thou must not shrink,
    But tell me here truly what I do think.””
    —Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 30–32)

    “Violence among young people ... is an aspect of their desire to create. They don’t know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.”
    —Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)