David Raitt Robertson Burt FRSE FLS FZS (1899–1983) was a Scottish zoologist with strong links to Ceylon.
He is also credited with mounting the Bell Pettigrew Museum collection in the Zoology Department.
[1] In the First World War he joined the Black Watch and reached the rank of Second Lieutenant.
His students included the marine biologist Norman Tebble FRSE.
In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being, amongst others, D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson.