Burnside may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

Burnside Ridges Burnside Ridges () are three roughly parallel ridges running approximately northeast–southwest with their northeast extremities terminating at Matusevich Glacier. This area was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in 1947. Th ...

, Oates Land

Australia

City of Burnside The City of Burnside is a local government area in the South Australian city of Adelaide stretching from the Adelaide Parklands into the Adelaide foothills with an area of . It was founded in August 1856 as the District Council of Burnside, the ...

, a local government area of Adelaide, South Australia **

Burnside, South Australia Burnside is suburb in the City of Burnside council area in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide. It is primarily a residential suburb. It was named Burnside, an amalgamation of the Scottish word for creek, "burn" and "side" because of the original p ...

, a suburb of the City of Burnside * Burnside, New South Wales, in the Oatlands suburb of Sydney * Burnside, Queensland, a suburb in the Sunshine Coast Region * Burnside, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne *

Burnside, Western Australia Burnside is a small townsite located in the South West region of Western Australia in the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River Shire is a traditional term for an administrative division of land in Great Britain and some other English-speaking co ...

, in the South West region * Lake Burnside, in the Gibson Desert, Western Australia

Canada

* Burnside, Nova Scotia, an urban neighbourhood in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia * Burnside Drive, a road in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia * Burnside, Colchester County, an unincorporated rural community in Nova Scotia *

Burnside Hall Burnside Hall (french: Pavillon Burnside) is a McGill University building located at 805 Sherbrooke Street West, on the university's downtown campus in Montreal, Quebec. It is named after Burnside Place, the Montreal estate of James McGill, the ...

, a building on the downtown campus of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec *

Burnside, Newfoundland and Labrador Burnside-St. Chads is a local service district and designated place on the Eastport Peninsula in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. A port is located in Burnside through which the ''MV Grace Sparkes'' services the isolated isl ...

, a seaside town in Newfoundland * Burnside, Ontario, in the township of Severn *

Burnside River The Burnside River is a river in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. It has its headwaters at Contwoyto Lake (), flows across the Precambrian Shield's Contwoyto Plateau, flows through isolated and rugged tundra, into Lake Kathawachaga, and throug ...

, Nunavut

New Zealand

Burnside, Christchurch Burnside is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, located southeast of Christchurch International Airport. As with most suburbs in Christchurch, it has no defined boundaries and is a general area. History Burnside was originally part of a far ...

, a suburb *

Burnside, Dunedin Burnside is a mainly industrial suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located at the mouth of a long valley, the Kaikorai Valley, through which flows the Kaikorai Stream. This valley stretches to the northeast for . Burnside is to ...

, a suburb

Northern Ireland

* Burnside, County Antrim, a townland in County Antrim

Scotland

* Burnside, South Lanarkshire, an area of Rutherglen * Burnside, Highland, a district of Thurso *

Burnside of Duntrune Burnside of Duntrune is a hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 wor ...

, a hamlet in Angus

United States

Burnside, Arizona Burnside is a native village and census-designated place (CDP) on the Navajo Nation in Apache County, Arizona, United States. The population was 537 at the 2010 census. Geography Burnside is located at (35.755138, -109.630277). According to t ...

, a census-designated place *

Burnside, Chicago Burnside is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago. The 47th numbered area, it is located on the city's far south side. This area is also called "The Triangle" by locals, as it is bordered by railroad tracks on every side; the Canadian Nation ...

, a community area of Chicago, Illinois *

Burnside, Illinois Burnside is an unincorporated community in Pilot Grove Township, Hancock County, Illinois, United States. History Burnside was founded in 1862, and named after Ambrose Everett Burnside Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – Septem ...

, an unincorporated town in Hancock County *

Burnside, Iowa Burnside is an unincorporated community in Webster County, Iowa, United States. Its elevation is 1,138 feet (347 m). Burnside has a post office with the ZIP code 50521. History Present-day Burnside was laid out as a town named Buchanan ...

Burnside, Kentucky Burnside is a home rule-class city in Pulaski County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 611 at the 2010 census. In 2004, Burnside became the only town in Pulaski County or any adjoining county to allow the sale of alcoholic beve ...

, a city in Pulaski County *

Burnside, Louisiana Burnside is an unincorporated community in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States. It was founded by French and German settlers in 1726, early in the French colonial period. The ZIP Code for Burnside is 70738. The community's name is for Joh ...

Burnside, Mississippi Burnside is an unincorporated community located in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States. Burnside is approximately north of Philadelphia along Mississippi Highway 15 Mississippi Highway 15 (MS 15) is a state highway in Mississippi. At a ...

Burnside, Pennsylvania Burnside is a borough in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 188 at the 2020 census. Geography Burnside is located in southwestern Clearfield County at (40.813203, -78.787645), along the West Branch Susquehanna Riv ...

Burnside, Wisconsin Burnside is a town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 529. The ghost town of New City was located in the town. The town was named after civil war general Ambrose Burnside. Geography ...

, a town in Trempealeau County *

Burnside Bridge The Burnside Bridge is a 1926-built bascule bridge that spans the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, United States, carrying Burnside Street. It is the second bridge at the same site to carry that name. It was added to the National Register of ...

, a drawbridge in Portland, Oregon **

Burnside Skatepark The Burnside Skatepark is a DIY concrete skatepark located in Portland, Oregon, United States. Burnside was the first DIY skatepark project. It is located under the east end of the Burnside Bridge. The project was started without permission from ...

, below Burnside Bridge * Burnside Park, Providence, Rhode Island *

Burnside Street Burnside Street is a major thoroughfare of Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon, and one of a few east–west streets that runs uninterrupted on both sides of the Willamette River. It serves as the dividing line between North Portland and South ...

, a street in Portland, Oregon * Burnside Township, Michigan *

Burnside Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania Burnside Township is a township in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,064 at the time of the 2020 census. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all of it land. ...

Burnside Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania Burnside Township is a township in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located approximately at .''http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=275 ...

* Burnside Triangle, a district in Portland, Oregon

People with the surname

In sport

Adrian Burnside Adrian Mark Burnside (born 15 March 1977) is an Australian former baseball player born in Alice Springs. He was a member of the Australian Olympic baseball team, which achieved a silver medal in the Baseball at the 2004 Summer Olympics, baseba ...

(born 1977), Australian baseball player * Brenda Burnside (born 1963), former boxing "journeywoman" *

Cara-Beth Burnside Cara-Beth Burnside, nicknamed "CB" (born July 23, 1971 in Orange, California, United States), is a professional skateboarder and snowboarder and ranks amongst the top female athletes in these sports in the world. She was the first president of ...

(born 1968), American skateboarder and snowboarder * Geoffery Burnside (born 1950), Bahamian cyclist *

George Burnside (American football) George Harrison Burnside (January 21, 1899 – November 1, 1962) was a blocking back in the National Football League. He played with the Racine Tornadoes during the 1926 NFL season. He died on November 1, 1962, in Seattle Seattle ( ) is ...

(1899–1962), blocking back in the National Football League * Laurence Burnside (born 1946), Bahamian cyclist *

Pete Burnside Peter Willits Burnside (July 2, 1930 – August 26, 2022) was an American professional baseball player and left-handed pitcher who appeared in 196 Major League Baseball games in 1955 and from 1957 to 1963 for the New York / San Francisco Gian ...

(1930–2022), baseball pitcher *

Sheldon Burnside Sheldon John Burnside (born December 22, 1954) is a former Major League Baseball player who pitched for the Detroit Tigers and the Cincinnati Reds. Burnside was born in South Bend, Indiana but moved to the Greater Toronto Area at about five mont ...

(born 1954), Major League Baseball player

In entertainment

Cedric Burnside Cedric O. Burnside (born August 26, 1978)'' Jefferson'' interview. Issue 141, March 2004Swedish original via Google Translate is an American electric blues guitarist, drummer, singer and songwriter. He is the son of blues drummer Calvin Jackson ...

(born 1978), American electric blues drummer, guitarist, singer and songwriter *

Iain Burnside Iain Burnside is a Scottish classical pianist and accompanist, and a former presenter on BBC Radio 3. Following study at Merton College, Oxford, the Royal Academy of Music and the Chopin Academy, in Warsaw he became a freelance pianist, special ...

, Scottish classical pianist, accompanist and radio presenter *

John Burnside John Burnside FRSL FRSE (born 19 March 1955) is a Scottish writer. He is one of only three poets (the others being Ted Hughes and Sean O'Brien) to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same book (''Black C ...

(born 1955), Scottish writer * R. H. Burnside (1870–1952), actor, director, producer, composer, and playwright * R. L. Burnside (1926–2005), blues musician * Stanley Burnside (born 1947), Bahamian cartoonist and painter

In business, politics, and law

Ambrose Burnside Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American army officer and politician who became a senior Union general in the Civil War and three times Governor of Rhode Island, as well as being a successful inventor ...

(1824–1881), American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician *

Bruce Burnside Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart Burnside (26 July 1833 – 10 August 1909) was the 16th Chief Justice of Ceylon and 25th Queen's Advocate of Ceylon. Career He served as the Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Bahamas from November 1866 to Feb ...

(1833–1909), Chief Justice and Queen's Advocate of Ceylon *

David Burnside David Wilson Boyd Burnside (born 24 August 1951) is an Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for South Antrim from 2001 to 2005. Burnside was also a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for ...

(born 1951), Northern Ireland politician and public relations expert *

Jon Burnside Jon Burnside is a Canadian politician and former police officer who was elected to represent Ward 16 Don Valley East on Toronto City Council following the 2022 municipal election. Burnside is the chair of the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). H ...

, Canadian politician *

Julian Burnside Julian William Kennedy Burnside (born 9 June 1949) is an Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author. He practises principally in commercial litigation, trade practices and administrative law. He is known for his staunch ...

(born 1949), Australian barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author * Maurice G. Burnside (1902–1991), professor, tobacco warehouse manager, and US Representative * Robert Bruce Burnside (1862–1929), Australian judge * Robert H. Burnside (1933–2021), American politician *

Thomas Burnside Thomas Burnside (July 28, 1782March 25, 1851) was an American politician and judge who served as a Democratic-Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district from 1815 to 1816 and as ...

(1782–1851), US Representative from Pennsylvania

In the sciences

John Burnside (inventor) John Lyon Burnside III (November 2, 1916 – September 14, 2008) was an American inventor and gay rights activist, known for inventing the teleidoscope, darkfield kaleidoscope, and the Symmetricon. Because he rediscovered the math behind kaleidos ...

(1916–2008), American inventor and gay rights activist, known for inventing the teleidoscope, darkfield kaleidoscope, and Symmetricon * William Snow Burnside (1839–1920), Irish mathematician *

William Burnside :''This English mathematician is sometimes confused with the Irish mathematician William S. Burnside (1839–1920).'' __NOTOC__ William Burnside (2 July 1852 – 21 August 1927) was an English mathematician. He is known mostly as an early rese ...

(1852–1927), English mathematician **

Burnside's lemma Burnside's lemma, sometimes also called Burnside's counting theorem, the Cauchy–Frobenius lemma, the orbit-counting theorem, or the Lemma that is not Burnside's, is a result in group theory that is often useful in taking account of symmetry when ...

, an orbit-counting theorem in group theory **

Burnside's problem The Burnside problem asks whether a finitely generated group in which every element has finite order must necessarily be a finite group. It was posed by William Burnside in 1902, making it one of the oldest questions in group theory and was infl ...

, about whether certain groups must be finite ** Burnside's theorem, a proof that certain finite groups are solvable

Other

* Bob Burnside, first president of the United States Lifesaving Association * Frank Herbert Burnside (1888–1935), pioneer airmail pilot *

George Burnside (Concerned Brethren) Historic Adventism is an informal designation for conservative individuals and organizations affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church who seek to preserve certain traditional beliefs and practices of the church. They feel that the church ...

(1908–1994), New Zealand evangelist * Joe Burnside (1930–2008), Britain's longest surviving heart transplant patient * Robert Burnside (1759–1826), English Baptist minister

Fictional people

Frank Burnside ''The Bill'' is a long-running British television police procedural television series, named after a slang term for the police. The characters are all police officers or civilian staff at the fictional Sun Hill police station in London. Senior ...

, a fictional character in British television series ''The Bill'' and titular character of its spin-off ''Burnside'' * Neil Burnside, central protagonist of British television series ''The Sandbaggers'' * William Burnside (comics), a fictional incarnation of Captain America

Other uses

Burnside rules The Burnside rules were a set of rules that transformed Canadian football from a rugby-style game to the gridiron-style game it has remained ever since. The rules were first adopted by the Ontario Rugby Football Union in 1903, and were named after ...

, a set of rules that transformed Canadian football from a rugby-style game to a gridiron-style game * ''Burnside'' (TV series), a spin-off from ''The Bill''