List of Famous people with last name Burgoyne

Shaun Playford Burgoyne is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He began his AFL career with the Port Adelaide Football Club, where he played from 2002 to 2009 before being traded to Hawthorn.

General John Burgoyne was a British general, dramatist and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 to 1792. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, most notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762.

Field Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne, 1st Baronet was a British Army officer. After taking part in the Siege of Malta during the French Revolutionary Wars, he saw action under Sir John Moore and then under the Duke of Wellington in numerous battles of the Peninsular War, including the Siege of Badajoz and the Battle of Vitoria. He served under Sir Edward Pakenham as chief engineer during the War of 1812. He went on to act as official advisor to Lord Raglan during the Crimean War advocating the Bay of Kalamita as the point of disembarkation for allied forces and recommending a Siege of Sevastopol from the south side rather than a coup de main, so consigning the allied forces to a winter in the field in 1854.