Kenelm Oswald Lancelot Burridge (October 31, 1922 – May 21, 2019) was a Maltese-born Canadian anthropologist.
Although his ship, HMS Splendid, was sunk off Naples, Italy in 1943 and he was captured, Burridge escaped, returned to naval service, and retired as a lieutenant three years later.
His main interests during his scholarly career were the ethnography of Oceania, and Malaya; religion; chiliasms; social and symbolic organization; anthropological history and theory; myth; museology; and missionaries and missiology.
Many of his studies have looked specifically at millenarianism and cargo cults, and religious aspects of cultural change.
[4] As John Barker writes in the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania's 1991 Newsletter, Burridge's "most ambitious book, Someone, No One, (1979), combines anthropology, history, philosophy and theology in a nuanced understanding of the dynamics of being an individual.