Burney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Amari Burney
Amari Burney (born June 12, 2000) is an American football linebacker for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Florida.
Professional career
Burney was drafted by the Las Vegas Raiders in th ...
(born 2000), American football player
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Ansar Burney
Ansar Burney ( ur, انصار برنی; born 14 August 1956) is a Pakistani human and civil rights activist and former caretaker Federal Minister for human rights in Pakistan cabinet from 2007 to 2008. He graduated with Masters in Law from K ...
(born 1956), Pakistani-Arab human rights activist
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Cecil Burney
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cecil Burney, 1st Baronet, (15 May 1858 – 5 June 1929) was a Royal Navy officer. After seeing action as a junior office in naval brigades during both the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Mahdist War, he commanded a cruiser ...
(1858–1929), British admiral
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Charles Burney (disambiguation), several people
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Christopher Burney
Christopher Arthur Geoffrey Burney MBE (1917 – 18 December 1980) was an upper-class Englishman who served in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during World War II.
Biography
In 1941, Pierre de Vomécourt organized AUTOGYRO, one of the fi ...
(1917–1980), British spy during World War II
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Clarence A. Burney (1876–1933), Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri
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Dennistoun Burney
Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney, 2nd Baronet (28 December 1888 – 11 November 1968, in Bermuda) was an English aeronautical engineer, private inventor and Conservative Party politician.''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' Oxford: OUP.
Ear ...
(1888–1968), British engineer and inventor
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Edward Francis Burney
Edward Francis Burney (1760–1848) was an English artist. His middle name is sometimes given as "Francisco" or "Francesco".
Life
Burney was born in Worcester on 7 September 1760, the son of Richard Burney and Elizabeth Humphries. The musicolo ...
(1760–1848), English artist and illustrator
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Frances Burney
Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post as "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklen ...
(1752–1840), English novelist and diarist
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Henry Burney
Henry Burney (27 February 1792 – 4 March 1845) or Hantri Barani ( th, หันตรีบารนี) in Thai, was a British commercial traveller and diplomat for the British East India Company. His parents were Richard Thomas Burney (1768 ...
(1792–1845), British agent, ambassador of the East India Company
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James Burney
James Burney (13 June 1750 – 17 November 1821) was an English rear-admiral, who accompanied Captain Cook on his last two voyages. He later wrote two books on naval voyages and a third on the game of whist.
Family
Burney was born in London, al ...
(1750–1821), British admiral
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Linda Burney
Linda Jean Burney (born 25 April 1957) is an Australian politician and is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing Barton since the 2016 federal election. She is Minister for Indigenous Australi ...
(born 1957), Australian politician
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Sarah Burney
Sarah Harriet Burney (29 August 1772 – 8 February 1844) was an English novelist, the daughter of musicologist and composer Charles Burney, and half-sister of the novelist and diarist Frances Burney (Madame d'Arblay). She had some intermittent ...
(1772–1844), novelist, known as S.H. Burney
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S. M. H. Burney
Sayed Muzaffar Hussain Burney (14 August 1924 – 7 February 2014) was a civil servant, governor of the states of Tripura, Nagaland, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and a chairman of the National Minorities Commission.
Burney was an alumnus of the ...
(Sayed Muzaffar Hussain Burney, 1923–2014), Indian civil servant
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Venetia Burney
Venetia Katharine Douglas Burney (married name Phair, 11 July 1918 – 30 April 2009) was an English accountant and teacher. She is remembered as the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the dwarf planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 193 ...
(1918–2009), namer of the dwarf planet Pluto
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English-language surnames