Fyodor Ivanovich Burtsev (Russian: Фёдор Иванович Бурцев; 27 June 1923 – 4 May 2003) was a decorated test pilot of the Gromov Flight Research Institute.

Burtsev was born on 27 June 1923 to a working-class Russian family in Kazaki village, located within present-day Tula oblast.

In 1932 he moved to Moscow, where in 1940 he graduated from his eighth grade of school in addition to the local aeroclub named after Lenin before joining the military in January 1941.

Until 1947 he served as an instructor pilot at the Higher Officer's School of Aerial Comber, although he briefly left in mid 1944 for combat training with the 322nd Fighter Aviation Division.

From 1951 to 1952 he took part in manned tests of the KS-1 Komet, an anti-ship air-to-surface missile along with Amet-khan Sultan, Sergey Anokhin, and Vasily Pavlov, for which they each received the Stalin Prize 2nd class in 1953.