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Burroughs is a surname of English origin. At the time of the British Census of 1881, its relative frequency was highest in Suffolk (8.9 times the British average), followed by Norfolk, Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Huntingdonshire, Somerset, Hampshire, Surrey, Lincolnshire and Orkney. The name Burroughs may refer to: * Augusten Burroughs (born 1965), American writer * Dillon Burroughs (born 1976), American writer * Diane Burroughs, American television writer * Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), American author, creator of the John Carter of Mars series, and the later Tarzan series. * George Burroughs (1650 – 1692), American Congregational pastor * Jackie Burroughs (born 1939), Canadian actress * Jeff Burroughs (born 1951), American baseball player * Jerrold Burroughs (born 1967), American politician * John Burroughs (1837-1921), American naturalist and essayist * Nick Burroughs (born 1964), American baseball player * Sean Burroughs(born 1980), American baseball player * Silas Mainville Burroughs (pharmacist) (died 1895), co-founder of the Burroughs Wellcome Company (later part of GlaxoSmithKline) * William Seward Burroughs I (1855-1898), US inventor * William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), author and grandson of William Seward Burroughs * William S. Burroughs, Jr. (1947-1981), author, son of William S. Burroughs, and great grandson of William Seward Burroughs Also * Hilda Burroughs, fictional character in Robert A. Heinlein's novel The Number of the Beast * Lord Burroughs, fictional character