Agnes Burns Wieck (January 4, 1892 – October 22, 1966) was an American labor activist and journalist, described as "a Coal Field 'Hell Raiser'".

[2] Her parents were both born in Kentucky; her father, Patrick Burns, was a coal miner active in union organizing.

[4] She trained as a teacher and attended a course on labor organizing at the University of Chicago,[1] on a scholarship from the National Women's Trade Union League.

[11] In August 1933 she was "dragged", "manhandled", arrested and jailed, after a PMA meeting was attacked by the United Mine Workers and the county sheriff's department.

[2] Her son wrote a biography, Woman from Spillertown: A Memoir of Agnes Burns Wieck (1991), published by Southern Illinois University Press.