Famous People with Name Burgess

Burgess Sidney Gaither            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Burgess Sidney Gaither: was a prominent North Carolina politician and attorney who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.He was also elected to represent the county in the 1835 convention to revise the North Carolina Constitution.He was a member

Warren Randolph Burgess            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Warren Randolph Burgess: was an American banker and diplomat who served as ambassador to NATO from 1957 to 1961.Burgess was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He attended Brown University and joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity.[1] He became a prominent banker in New York City. Dwigh

Wilma Burgess            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wilma Burgess: was an American Country Music singer. She charted six singles on the Billboard country charts in the 1960s and 1970s.Wilma Burgess was born in Orlando, Florida in 1939. After graduating from high school, she attended Stetson University in Deland, Florida

Gregory Stewart "Greg" Burgess            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Gregory Stewart "Greg" Burgess: is a former American college and international swimmer who won a silver medal in the 200-meter individual medley at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He represented the United States in the 1992 and 1996 Olympic games.

Ethan Burgess            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ethan Burgess: is an American pairs skater. In 2010 he was cast as a professional skater on the ABC show Skating with the Stars. Burgess started skating at the age of 10 after watching the Olympics on TV. With former partner Keauna McLaughlin he won two consecutive meda

David Luther Burgess            Origin/Culture/Country: American

David Luther Burgess: was a World War I flying ace who, in 1926, was the sole challenger to Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in a by-election held in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Mackenzie King had suffered a personal defeat in the 1925 federal election losing his riding of York North in Ontario and needed to win in a by-election in order to re-enter the Canadian House of Commons. Prince Albert Liberal MP Charles McDonald was persuaded to step aside in order to create a vacancy for King. Four years later, after the 1930 federal election defeated Mackenzie King's government and brought the Conservatives to power, Burgess moved to Ottawa to take up a position as private secretary to the new Minister of Agriculture, Robert Weir. He remained in Ottawa as a civil servant with the Department of Agriculture after the Conservatives were defeated in 1935 and retired from the position of chief of supplies of the department in 1957. He was a candidate for the city of Ottawa's Board of Control when he suffered a heart attack and died five days before the election.