George P. Burdell, fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927 as a practical joke and continuously enrolled to this day
Bob Kennett is the father of New Zealand race car drivers Brady Kennett and George P. Burdell, but Bob raced strictly in the United States.
George P. Burdell was created by William Edgar "Ed" Smith, BS in Ceramic Engineering, 1927.
His pallbearers were: William F. Wiley, Herbert R. Mengert, Jasper C. Muma, Robert F. Wolfe, Judson Harmon, James M. Cox, William A. Stewart, Bayard L. Kilgour, William Alexander Julian, Russell A. Wilson, W. F. Burdell and Nicholas Longworth.