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
  • Whome, a village in the Orkney Islands

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, Michigan, an unincorporated community
  • 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
  • Scott Burnside (born 1963), Canadian journalist and sportswriter

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

  • 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