Burney (surname) explained

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