William Beaumont Burns (29 August 1883 – 7 July 1916) was an English cricketer who played more than 200 first-class matches in the early 20th century, the great bulk of them for Worcestershire, for whom he filled in as captain on a number of occasions when the usual incumbents were not available.
Burns's obituary in Wisden described him as a "dashing, hard-hitting batsman" but added that his bowling – which he scarcely pursued until the middle of his career – had to be considered suspect: "the fairness of his delivery was often questioned – and not without good reason".
That winter he visited New Zealand with a Marylebone Cricket Club team: he twice passed 50 in 11 innings and dismissed Wellington's Harold Monaghan.
In 1908 he sent down 633 deliveries, almost twice the number he had bowled in his first-class career up to that point, and claimed 16 wickets at 28.50 including a haul of 6–110 against Hampshire.
In the following three seasons he bowled around 2,000 deliveries each summer, claiming a total of 145 first-class wickets, and recording career-best figures of 7-58 for the Gentlemen against the Players at The Oval in July 1910.