David Wreyford Burnford (6 January 1915 – 10 June 1984) was a British medical doctor and rower who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Later in the year he partnered Cree in the coxless pair representing Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, but was unplaced.
His wife was the novelist Sheila Burnford, who wrote The Incredible Journey, which was later adapted to a Disney movie of the same name.
He beat the charges with the excuse that the drugs had been slipped into his luggage during a stopover in Peru as he was returning from England.Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal, June 27, 1984 Burnford relocated to Colorado.
On June 9, 1984 he was questioned by the FBI after investigators seized 36 pounds of cocaine from the trunk of a car he had rented in New York.