List of Famous people named Burt
Burt Sugarman
Burton Roy Sugarman is an American film and television producer best known for creating and producing the iconic 1970s/early '80s showcase for rock-n-roll groups The Midnight Special.
Burt Ward
Burt Ward is an American actor and activist. He is best known for his portrayal of Robin, the sidekick of Batman, in the television series Batman (1966–1968), its theatrical feature film, the Saturday morning animated series The New Adventures of Batman (1977), the two-episode pilot Legends of the Superheroes (1979), the animated reunion films Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016) and Batman vs. Two-Face (2017), and the live-action television event Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019). Ward is one of the last surviving original actors of the 1960s TV series Batman.
Burt Young
Gerald Tommaso DeLouise, better known by his stage name Burt Young, is an American actor, author and painter. He is best known for his role as Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law and best friend Paulie Pennino in the Rocky film series, being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the first film.
Burt Bacharach
Burt Freeman Bacharach is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who has composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. As of 2014, he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. He is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music.
Burt Rutan
Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan is a retired American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, and energy-efficient air and space craft. He designed the record-breaking Voyager, which in 1986 was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, which in 2006 set the world record for the fastest and longest nonstop non-refueled circumnavigation flight in history. In 2004, Rutan's sub-orbital spaceplane design SpaceShipOne became the first privately funded spacecraft to enter the realm of space, winning the Ansari X-Prize that year for achieving the feat twice within a two-week period.
Burt Baskin
Burt "Butch" Baskin was an American businessman who co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlor chain in 1946 with business partner and brother-in-law Irv Robbins.
Burt Brinckerhoff
Burton Field Brinckerhoff is an American former director, actor, and producer. He was nominated for three Primetime Emmys for his direction in the drama series Lou Grant (1977–1982), as well as a Tony Award for his performance in the play Cactus Flower (1965).
Burt Metcalfe
Burt Metcalfe is a Canadian American television and film producer, director, actor, and writer.
Burt Balaban
Burt Balaban was an American film producer and director.
Burt Dalton
Burt Dalton is a visual effects supervisor. Dalton and his fellow visual effects artists are nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness. He has won 1 Oscar for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button along with 3 other nominations.