Diana Burnwood

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Diana Penelope Burnwood is one of the handlers at the International Contract Agency, providing Agent 47 with clients, targets, and information. She has, since Hitman's inception, been a prominent part of every story and proved a valuable asset to Agent 47 for the most part. She is the deuteragonist of the Hitman series.

She has a composed English accent and a business-like demeanor. For the vast majority of the series, 47 never sees Diana, recognizing her only by voice. She is not supposed to meet 47 in person, nor develop a personal friendship with him, but does so anyway (meeting him in person after his near death experience and again just before his fake funeral).

Diana was born on the 12th of September 1972 and was the eldest daughter of Sir Peter Lloyd Burnwood and Lady Nancy (née Summers) Burnwood. She has a brother, Sir James Oliver Burnwood, born in 1973 (current whereabouts unknown); and a sister, Emma Lucille Burnwood, born in 1975 but died in 2002 under mysterious circumstances.

She began her secondary education at the Institut Le Rosey in Rolle, Switzerland. She attended the prestigious school from 1984-1985, but for unknown reasons she left to complete her education back home in England. While at Le Rosey, Diana was noted as achieving consistently high grades. Diana later attended the Wycombe Abbey School in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, from 1985–1989. She was noted to have exemplary grades in all her subjects, with only a minor disruption during the period of her father’s death. After graduating in 1989 from Wycombe, she attended Yale University, where she studied for a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. However, after being recruited into the ICA she transferred to Oxford University, where she graduated with first class honours.

Initially Diana came to the attention of the ICA in May 1985 due to her excellent parentage and academic performance. The ICA continued to observe her potential from June 1985 to October 1989. Diana was first approached by the ICA in December 1990, upon which she was accepted as a candidate for their operative/handler programme. She immediately began intensive training at the ICA’s Field Office 3 facilities in the summer of 1991. During this training, she was noted to have scored well above average in areas of covert operations (COVOPS). After this training, she was transferred from the ICA’s Field Office 3 facilities to another facility for specialized covert operations training. To maintain her anonymity, the ICA arranged for this to look like a simple transfer from Yale University to the University of Oxford.

She maintains ownership of the family estate in Beaconsfield as well as several other properties in Europe and North America. She most often resides on the agency-fitted luxury yacht called the Jean Danjou.