Clarence Henry "Du" Burns (September 13, 1918 – January 12, 2003) was a Democratic politician and the first African American mayor of Baltimore, Maryland in 1987.

One of his first jobs was locker room attendant at Dunbar High School, one of the others being picking up newspapers.

[3] In January 1987, the then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer resigned after being elected Governor of Maryland.

In the 1987 city elections, Burns ran for a full term but was defeated in the Democratic primary by Kurt Schmoke.

[4] In 1991, a new arena on the waterfront near the neighborhood of Canton and Chestertown was named in Burns's honor.