Edward Burton FRS FLS (1790 – 11 March 1867) was a British Army surgeon and a zoologist.

[7] In 1838, he compiled A Catalogue of the Collection of Mammalia and Birds in the Museum of the Army Medical Department at Fort Pitt, Chatham.

[8] He wrote in its Preface, "This task has been undertaken at such broken and uncertain periods as his professional duties left at the disposal of its author".

[7][11] He has also been identified as the man who in 1836 communicated a description of Pipra squalida,[d] a Himalayan flowerpecker, to the Zoological Society.

[15] A fourth species may have been named in his honour: a mammal, Burton's gerbil (Gerbillus burtoni ).