Alan Burgess (1 February 1915 – 10 April 1998) was an English Royal Air Force pilot and author who wrote several biographical and non-fiction books between the 1950s and the 1970s. He wrote biographies of Gladys Aylward,and Flora Sandes,and co-wrote Ingrid Bergman's autobiography.Bergman played Gladys Aylward in the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness based on Burgess's biography.