# Burnside

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 coastal community 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 (1955–2024), 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 (minister) (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