Major General William Burney Bannerman CSI FRSE (6 July 1858 – 3 February 1924) was a 19th and 20th century high-ranking Scottish military surgeon who worked in the Indian Medical Service. As director of the plague research laboratory, he conducted experiments on plague vaccines along with Waldemar Haffkine. He was one of the first to use Henry Littlejohn's analytical techniques on a large scale, demonstrating the value of inoculation.