Charles E. "Charlie" Burr (May 14, 1934 – September 16, 2008) was an American National Champion Thoroughbred horse racing jockey.
Charlie Burr was raised on a farm at Arkansas City, Kansas, where he learned to ride horses at an early age.
He rode professionally for twenty-nine years at Thoroughbred racetracks in New York, the Mid-Atlantic States, as well as the South Florida metropolitan area.
[1] In 1953, he won six races on a single racecard at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida, a record that stood for forty-two years.
An accident while exercising a horse at Maryland's Bowie Race Track left Burr partially paralyzed and he would need a wheelchair for the next twenty-six years until he became bedridden in 2006.