Burke is a surname or given name.

Burke may also refer to:

People

For a list of individuals with the name, see Burke.

  • Burke baronets, two baronetcies created in the Baronetage of Ireland
  • House of Burke or House of Burgh, ancient Anglo-Norman noble family

Places

Antartica

  • Burke Island, an island in the Amundsen Sea

Australia

  • Burke Developmental Road, a road in Queensland
  • Burke, Wills, King and Yandruwandha National Heritage Place, a heritage-listed historic precinct on the Birdsville Track, Innamincka
  • Shire of Burke, a local government area in Queensland
  • Division of Burke (disambiguation)

Canada

  • Mount Burke (Alberta)
  • Mount Burke (British Columbia)
  • Burke Brook, part of the Don River in Toronto, Ontario

New Zealand

  • Burkes Pass, a mountain pass and town in South Canterbury, New Zealand

United States

  • Burke, Idaho, a ghost town in Shoshone County
  • Burke (town), New York
  • Burke (village), New York
  • Burke, South Dakota
  • Burke, Texas
  • Burke, Vermont
  • Burke, Virginia
  • Burke, Washington
  • Burke, Wisconsin, a town
  • Burke (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
  • Burke Centre, Virginia, a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States
  • Burke's Garden, Virginia, a valley and unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Virginia
  • Burke Lake, a freshwater reservoir in Fairfax Station, Fairfax County, Virginia
  • Burke Lake Park, a public park in Fairfax Station, Fairfax County, Virginia
  • Burke Canyon, a canyon of the Burke-Canyon Creek, Shoshone County, Idaho
  • Burke County (disambiguation)
  • Burke Mountain (Vermont)
  • Burke Mountain Ski Area, a ski resort in northeast Vermont

Mercury

  • Burke (crater), a crater on Mercury

Buildings

  • Burke Building, an historic building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Burke Building (Manila), an historic building in Binondo, Manila, Philippines
  • Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, a natural history museum in Seattle, Washington
  • Burke Library, an academic library of the Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, New York City
  • Burke Mountain Academy, a college-preparatory school in East Burke, Vermont
  • Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, a non-profit rehabilitation hospital in White Plains, New York
  • John S. Burke Catholic High School (referred to locally as Burke Catholic), a Roman Catholic high school in Goshen, New York
  • Burke–Tarr Stadium, a football stadium in Jefferson City, Tennessee
  • Edmund Burke School, a college preparatory school in Washington, D.C.
  • Katherine Delmar Burke School, independent girls' school in the Sea Cliff neighborhood of San Francisco, California
  • Omaha Burke High School, a secondary school in Omaha, Nebraska, United States
  • Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, research center at the California Institute of Technology founded in 2014

Literature

  • "To Burke", a 1794 sonnet by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Burke, the protagonist of a series of novels by Andrew Vachss

Organisations

  • Burke Corporation, a foodservice manufacturer
  • The Burke Group or Burke International, a US-based management consulting firm
  • Edmund Burke Foundation, Dutch think tank named after the Irish politician and philosopher
  • Manley Burke, American legal professional association

Publications

  • Book of the de Burgos or Book of the Burkes, a late 16th-century Gaelic illuminated manuscript
  • Burke's Peerage, an account of nobility, first published in 1826 by John Burke
  • Burke's Landed Gentry, an account of families of the land-holding class, first published in 1833 by John Burke

Science

  • Burke's theorem or Burke's Output Theorem
  • Burke–Schumann flame, a type of diffusion flame

Ships

  • USS Burke (DE-215), a Buckley-class destroyer escort of the United States Navy
  • USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51), lead ship of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers
  • Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, a United States Navy class of destroyer
  • SS John Burke, a World War II American Liberty Ship built

Statues

  • Statue of Ernest Burke, a statue of the American baseball player Ernest Alexander Burke (1924–2004) in Havre de Grace, Maryland
  • Statue of John Burke, a bronze sculpture by Avard Fairbanks, of the American politician John Burke (1859–1937), in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall

Television and Film

  • Hair-Trigger Burke, American silent Western film starring Harry Carey (1917)
  • Stoney Burke (TV series), an American Western TV series starring Jack Lord (1962–1963)
  • Burke's Law (disambiguation)
  • The Burke Special, a British TV series hosted by James Burke (1972–1976)
  • Burke & Hare (disambiguation)
  • The Shannon Burke Show, American radio talk show talk show based in Orlando, Florida
  • The Alan Burke Show, American syndicated talk show (1966–1970)

Transportation

  • Burke Avenue (IRT White Plains Road Line), a subway station in New York City, United States
  • Burke Centre station, a railway station in Burke, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States
  • Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport, an airport in Cleveland, Ohio, United States
  • Burke Road, a thoroughfare in Melbourne, Australia
  • Burke–Gilman Trail, a rail trail in King County, Washington

Other

  • Burke and Wills expedition, an Australian exploration expedition (1860–61)
  • Burke Act, a 1906 US congressional act relating to Native American enfranchisement
  • Burke Civil War, a conflict in Ireland in the 1330s

See also

  • Burke Ministry (disambiguation)
  • Berk (disambiguation)
  • Bourke (disambiguation)
  • Burk (disambiguation)