Burton
The taxon authority Burton may refer to:
- Arthur Burton Gahan (1880–1960), U.S. entomologist
- Christine M. Burton (fl. 1988, C.M.Burton), U.S. botanist
- Donald Burton Baker (1922–2004), British entomologist
- Edward Burton (1790–1867), British ornithologist
- Edwin Burton Uline (1867–1933, Uline), U.S. botanist
- Erica J. Burton (fl. 2019), U.S. ichthyologist
- Frederic Burton, English ornithologist and herpetologist
- George Burton Rigg (1872–1961, Rigg), U.S. botanist
- Henry Burton Bradley (1845–1918), Australian arachnologist
- John A. Burton (fl. 1978), British herpetologist
- John Burton Cleland (1878–1971, Cleland), Australian mycologist
- Leonard Burton Radinsky (1937–1985), U.S. paleontologist
- Mary Beverley-Burton (fl. 1986), Canadian parasitologist and helminthologist
- Maurice Burton (1898–1992), English spongiologist
- Philip John Kennedy Burton, British ornithologist
- Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), British explorer and naturalist
- Rodney McGuire Burton (born 1936, R.M.Burton), British botanist
- Ronald Burton (fl. 2007–2018), U.S. carcinologist
- Thomas C. Burton (fl. 1995), Australian herpetologist