William Gordon Burn Murdoch (22 January 1862 – 19 July 1939) was a Scottish painter, travel writer and explorer.

His elder brother, John Burn-Murdoch, joined the military and became the commanding engineer of state railways in India.

[2] Burn Murdoch was closely associated with Patrick Geddes' Fin de Siècle Scottish cultural revival.

He and the Symbolist painter John Duncan curated the art content of the Summer Meetings which Geddes organised at University Hall Extension in Edinburgh in the 1880s and '90s.

[3] Burn Murdoch contributed illustrations to the Spring, Summer and Winter volumes of The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal published by Patrick Geddes and Colleagues between 1895 and 1897.

He helped him by lending him money and later with organising a number of projects including the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition in 1902–04.

He and his wife had lived at Arthur Lodge, where they entertained visitors, including Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott.

[2] His writings and paintings are in a number of institutions, including the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, the Victoria and Albert, and the Perth & Kinross Council and Dundee Museum.