Burnside

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Burnside may refer to:

Places

Antarctica

• Burnside Ridges, Oates Land

Australia

• City of Burnside, a local government area of Adelaide, South Australia
  • Burnside, South Australia, 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, 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, a building on the downtown campus of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
• Burnside, Newfoundland and Labrador, a seaside town in Newfoundland
• Burnside, Ontario, in the township of Severn
• Burnside River, Nunavut

New Zealand

• Burnside, Christchurch, a suburb
• Burnside, Dunedin, 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, a hamlet in Angus

United States

• Burnside, Arizona, a census-designated place
• Burnside, Chicago, a community area of Chicago, Illinois
• Burnside, Illinois, an unincorporated town in Hancock County
• Burnside, Iowa
• Burnside, Kentucky, a city in Pulaski County
• Burnside, Louisiana
• Burnside, Mississippi
• Burnside, Pennsylvania
• Burnside, Wisconsin, a town in Trempealeau County
• Burnside Bridge, a drawbridge in Portland, Oregon
  • Burnside Skatepark, below Burnside Bridge
• Burnside Park, Providence, Rhode Island
• Burnside Street, a street in Portland, Oregon
• Burnside Township, Michigan
• Burnside Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania
• Burnside Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania
• Burnside Triangle, a district in Portland, Oregon

People with the surname

In sport

• Adrian Burnside (born 1977), Australian baseball player
• Brenda Burnside (born 1963), former boxing "journeywoman"
• Cara-Beth Burnside (born 1968), American skateboarder and snowboarder
• Geoffery Burnside (born 1950), Bahamian cyclist
• George Burnside (American football) (1899–1962), blocking back in the National Football League
• Laurence Burnside (born 1946), Bahamian cyclist
• Pete Burnside (1930–2022), baseball pitcher
• Sheldon Burnside (born 1954), Major League Baseball player

In entertainment

• Cedric Burnside (born 1978), American electric blues drummer, guitarist, singer and songwriter
• Iain Burnside, Scottish classical pianist, accompanist and radio presenter
• John Burnside (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 (1824–1881), American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician
• Bruce Burnside (1833–1909), Chief Justice and Queen's Advocate of Ceylon
• David Burnside (born 1951), Northern Ireland politician and public relations expert
• Jon Burnside, Canadian politician
• Julian Burnside (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 (1782–1851), US Representative from Pennsylvania

In the sciences

• John Burnside (inventor) (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 (1852–1927), English mathematician
  • Burnside's lemma, an orbit-counting theorem in group theory
  • Burnside's problem, 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) (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, 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, 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

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Burnside
• Burneside, a village in Cumbria, England
• Burnsides (disambiguation)
• Burntside (disambiguation)
• Byrneside, Victoria, Australia
• Byrnside-Beirne-Johnson House, a historic house in West Virginia, United States