Myles Fredric Burnyeat CBE FBA (/ˈbɜːrnjeɪt/; 1 January 1939 – 20 September 2019) was an English scholar of ancient philosophy.

[6] From 1959 to 1963, Burnyeat undertook undergraduate studies in Classics and Philosophy at King's College, Cambridge, where he earned a double first.

[5] In 1984, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy[8] and appointed as the fifth Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Cambridge, a position he held until 1996.

[5] From 2006, he would also hold the titles of Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and of Honorary Fellow at Robinson College.

From the winter of 2002 until her death in the spring of 2003 he was married to the scholar of ancient philosophy Heda Segvic, whose essays he prepared for posthumous publication.

Concluding her 2012 laureation address, Professor Sarah Broadie noted of Burnyeat that:[6]"Above all, he is a paradigm to philosophers and classicists for combining formidable learning with first hand engagement in philosophy’s own concerns: principally its concerns with ethics and epistemology.

His writings on the ancients take issue with such moderns as Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, Descartes, Berkeley, and for that matter Ronald Dworkin.