Bourne (surname)

Bourne is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Adeline Bourne (1873–1965), Anglo-Indian actress, suffragette, and charity worker
• Alan Bourne (1882–1967), senior officer in the Royal Marines
• Albert Bourne (1863–1930), English footballer
• Aleck Bourne (1886–1974), British gynaecologist and writer tried in a landmark 1938 case for an illegal abortion
• Alfred Bourne (disambiguation)
• Alfred Gibbs Bourne (1859–1940), English zoologist, botanist, and educator
• Ansel Bourne (1826–1910), American evangelical preacher, among the first documented cases of multiple personality and amnesia
• Arthur Bourne (1880–?), English footballer
• Avery Bourne, politician
• Benjamin Bourne (1755–1808), American jurist and politician from Rhode Island
• Bette Bourne (1939–2024), British actor and gay activist
• Bill Bourne (1954–2022), Canadian musician and songwriter
• Bob Bourne (born 1954), Canadian ice hockey player
• Charles Bourne (disambiguation)
• Chester Bourne (1889–?), Guyanese cricketer
• Chris Bourne (born 1985), English footballer
• Clayton Bourne (1904–1986), Canadian swimmer
• Clive Bourne (1942–2007), British businessman and philanthropist
• Daniel Bourne (born 1955), American poet and translator
• Debra Bourne (born 1960), communications expert, brand consultant and advocate
• Dickie Bourne (1879–1954), English footballer
• Doug Bourne (1908–1980), Australian rules footballer
• Edmund Bourne, American self-help author, psychologist, and researcher
• Edward Gaylord Bourne (1860–1908), American historian
• Eleanor Elizabeth Bourne (1878–1957), first Queensland woman to study medicine
• Emma Bourne (1846–1924), American temperance activist and social reformer
• Ernie Bourne (1926–2009), English Australian actor, entertainer, comedian, and puppeteer
• Eulalia Bourne (1892–1984), pioneer Arizona schoolteacher, rancher and author
• Evan Bourne (born 1983), ring name of American professional wrestler Matt Sydal
• Francis Bourne (1861–1935), English prelate of the Catholic Church
• Frank Bourne (1854–1945), British soldier and last known survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift
• Frank Card Bourne (1914–1983), American classicist
• Frederick Bourne (disambiguation)
• Frederick Gilbert Bourne (1859–1919), founder of the Singer Manufacturing Company
• George Bourne (1780–1845), American abolitionist and editor
• Holly Bourne, British author
• Hugh Bourne (1772–1852), joint founder of Primitive Methodism, the largest offshoot of Wesleyan Methodism
• Isabelle Bourne (born 2000), Australian basketball player
• James Bourne (born 1983), British singer-songwriter
• John Bourne (artist) (born 1943), British artist and painter
• John Cooke Bourne (1814–1896), artist and engraver
• Jonathan Bourne Jr. (1855–1940), U.S. Senator from Oregon
• JR Bourne (born 1970), Canadian actor
• Kendrick Bourne (born 1995), American football player
• London Bourne (1793–1869), former Barbadian slave who became a wealthy merchant and abolitionist
• Matthew Bourne (born 1960), British choreographer
• Munroe Bourne (1910–1992), Canadian swimmer
• Nick Bourne (born 1952), British politician
• Peter Bourne (born 1939), anthropologist, writer, and civil servant
• Philip Bourne (1953–2026), scientist
• Possum Bourne (1956–2003), New Zealand rally car driver
• Randolph Bourne (1886–1918), American Progressivist writer and essayist
• Ruth Bourne (1926–2025), British codebreaker and World War II veteran
• Samuel Bourne (1834–1912), British photographer of India
• Shae-Lynn Bourne (born 1976), Canadian ice dancer
• Stephen R. Bourne (born 1944), British-born computer scientist
• Teddy Bourne (born 1948), British Olympic épée fencer
• Una Mabel Bourne (1882–1974), Australian pianist and composer
• Wendy Bourne, Australian politician
• William Bourne (disambiguation)

Characters

• Jason Bourne (first appeared 1980), created by Robert Ludlum

See also

• Borne (disambiguation)
• Bourne (disambiguation)
• Burne, a surname