Burgess¹, Anthony (1917-93), English novelist and critic; pseudonym of John Anthony Burgess Wilson. One of his best-known novels is A Clockwork Orange (1962), a disturbing, futuristic vision of juvenile delinquency, violence, and high technology. Other Notable works: The Malayan Trilogy (1956-9) and Earthly Powers (1980).

Burgess², Guy (Francis de Moncy) (1911-63), British Foreign Office official and spy. Acting as Soviet agent from the 1930s, he worked for MI5 while ostensibly employed by the BBC. After the war he worked at the British Embassy in Washington, under Kim Philby; charged with espionage in 1951, he fled to the USSR with Donald Maclean.