Burney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Amari Burney (born 2000), American football player

Ansar Burney (born 1956), Pakistani-Arab human rights activist

Cecil Burney (1858–1929), British admiral

Charles Burney (disambiguation), several people

Christopher Burney (1917–1980), British spy during World War II

Clarence A. Burney (1876–1933), Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri

Dennistoun Burney (1888–1968), British engineer and inventor

Edward Francis Burney (1760–1848), English artist and illustrator

Frances Burney (1752–1840), English novelist and diarist

Henry Burney (1792–1845), British agent, ambassador of the East India Company

James Burney (1750–1821), British admiral

Linda Burney (born 1957), Australian politician

Sarah Burney (1772–1844), novelist, known as S.H. Burney

S. M. H. Burney (Sayed Muzaffar Hussain Burney, 1923–2014), Indian civil servant

Venetia Burney (1918–2009), namer of the dwarf planet Pluto

English-language surnames

Burney (surname)