Robert James "Red" Burnett (1910 or 1911 – April 1, 1979) was a Canadian sports journalist.

A columnist for the Toronto Star, he won the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award in 1984 and is a member of the media section of the Hockey Hall of Fame.

[1] Burnett joined the Star in 1927 originally as a copy boy, and retired in 1975.

[2] He died of a heart attack in 1979 at the age of 68.

At the time of his death, he had returned to the Star to work as a copy editor as part-time job.