Sir George Burns, 1st Baronet

Sir George Burns, 1st Baronet (10 December 1795 – 2 June 1890) was a Scottish shipping magnate.

Together, they started sailing ships between Glasgow and Liverpool, as well as across the Atlantic to Canada and the United States.

Burns was party to the consolidation of a number of companies, including the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, into the Cunard Line, which had been begun by Sir Samuel Cunard.

Today it is a US-owned cruise company, which operated the famous Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2).

John Burns (1829–1901), his eldest son, succeeded him in the baronetcy, became head of the Cunard Company and was created a peer, under the title of Baron Inverclyde, in 1897.