Francis Burdett Dixon (9 August 1836 – 7 April 1884) was an English-born Australian trade unionist. He was born at Leeds in Yorkshire to stonemason Joseph Dixon and Susannah Bland. He married weaver Elizabeth Chadwick on 16 October 1854, and they migrated to Victoria in 1859. The Dixons moved to Sydney in 1864, where Francis joined the Operative Stonemason's Society, becoming secretary of the central committee. He was chairman in 1869 and secretary again in 1870. During this period he was often forced to leave Sydney in order to find itinerant work in the country. Having risen to a prominent position in the union movement, he was secretary of the Eight Hour System Extension League from 1869 to 1871 and was an early delegate of the Trades and Labor Council, serving from 1872 to 1882. He cam