Lieutenant General Withers Alexander Burress (November 24, 1894 – June 13, 1977) was United States Army officer who was a graduate and commandant of the Virginia Military Institute as well as a combat commander in World War I and World War II.

Burress attended the United States Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, the United States Army Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and the United States Army War College at Washington Barracks in Washington, D.C. From 1935 to 1940, Burress was a professor of military science and served as commandant of the Virginia Military Institute.

As part of the Seventh United States Army's VI Corps, the division went into combat in the Vosges Mountains of northeastern France then through the Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central European campaigns until November 1945, making Burress one of eleven generals to command one of the United States Army's 90 divisions from mobilization to the end of the war.

In May 1947, Burress was one of three commanders of the United States Constabulary, the post-war occupation police force in West Germany.

That same month, on November 19, 1954, he received a ticker-tape parade down the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway in Manhattan, New York.