Thomas Roland Burgess (September 1, 1927 – November 24, 2008) was a Canadian professional baseball player, coach and manager.

He then forged a long career as a minor-league manager, and served as a major-league third base coach for the 1977 New York Mets and 1978 Atlanta Braves.

In his playing days, he threw and batted left-handed and stood 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) tall and weighed 180 pounds (82 kg).

He spent that year with the Triple-A Dallas-Fort Worth Rangers of the American Association, then made the 25-man roster of the 1962 Angels.

He returned to the game as a manager in the farm systems of the Cardinals, Braves, Mets, Texas Rangers and Detroit Tigers in the 1970s and 1980s.