Burgess may refer to:
People and fictional characters
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Burgess (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
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Burgess (given name) Burgess is a masculine given name which may refer to:
* Burgess Gardner (1936–2021), American jazz musician
* Burgess Jenkins (born 1973), American actor
* Burgess Meredith (1907–1997), American actor
* Burgess Owens
Clarence Burgess ...
, a list of people
Places
Canada
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Mount Burgess, a mountain in Yoho National Park, British Columbia
England
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Burgess Park, a park in London
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Burgess Field, a nature reserve in Oxford
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Burgess Hill
Burgess Hill () is a town and civil parish in West Sussex, England, close to the border with East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park, south of London, north of Brighton and Hove, and northeast of the county town, Chichester. ...
, a town and parish in West Sussex
United States
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Burgess, Michigan, an unincorporated community
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Burgess, Missouri, an unincorporated community
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Burgess, South Carolina, an unincorporated community
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Burgess, Virginia, an unincorporated community
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Burgess Township, Bond County, Illinois, a township
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Burgess Branch, a tributary of the Missisquoi River in Vermont
Other uses
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Burgess (title)
A burgess was the holder of a certain status in an English, Irish or Scottish borough in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, designating someone of the burgher class. It originally meant a freeman of a borough or burgh, but later came ...
, a political official or representative
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Burgess Company
The Burgess Company was a U.S. airplane manufacturer between 1910 and 1918.
History
The business was incorporated in 1910 as the "Burgess Company and Curtis, Inc." (after W. Starling Burgess and Greely S. Curtis, its co-founders with Frank Hen ...
, an American airplane manufacturer
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Burgess GAA, an athletic club in Ireland
See also
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Burgess House (disambiguation), several buildings named
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Burgess model, or Concentric zone model, a theoretical model in urban geography
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Burgess reagent, used in organic chemistry
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Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At old (middle Cambrian), it is one of the earliest fos ...
, a fossil-bearing formation near Mount Burgess in Canada
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Church Burgesses, an English charitable organisation
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House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses () was the lower house of the Virginia General Assembly from 1619 to 1776. It existed during the colonial history of the United States in the Colony of Virginia in what was then British America. From 1642 to 1776, the Hou ...
, Virginia, U.S.
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The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Burgess Golfing Society of Edinburgh is a Scottish golf club, which holds claim to be the oldest golfing society in the world, with references to it being instituted in 1735 dating from 1834. The club enjoys a parkland golf course, co ...
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