Miscellaneous

• Burton C. Mossman
  • National Cowboy Hall of Fame (see list of National Cowboy Hall of Fame)

Science and Philosophy

• Burton Richter (born 1931)

  American physicist who discovered the J-particle.

  • 1976 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, with Samuel Ting (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)

Stage and Screen

• Burton Holmes (born 1870, died 1858)

  American producer known for the tag line ''Sun sinks slowly in the west.''

  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture (see list of Movie Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)

The Literary World

• S. Burton Heath
  • 1940 Pulitzer Prize winner for Reporting (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Reporting)
• Burton J. Hendrick (born 1870, died 1949)

  American journalist and historian.

  • Two-time Pulitzer Prize Winner Biography/Autobiography, in 1923 for The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page and in 1929 for The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography)