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:
“thinking of
leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT
while she whispered a song along the keyboard
to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing”
—Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)
“Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although ... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)