Burke
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Burke may refer to:
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[edit] Places
[edit] Australia
- Burke Shire Council, a local government area in Queensland, Australia
- Division of Burke has been the name of an Australian Electoral Division twice
- Bourke, New South Wales, a town (pronounced "Burke")
[edit] Canada
[edit] United States
- Burke, Idaho, a ghost town
- Burke, South Dakota
- Burke, Virginia
- Burke (town), New York
- Burke (village), New York
- Burke, Wisconsin - a township in Dane County, Wisconsin
- Burke, Vermont
- John S. Burke Catholic High School, Goshen, Orange County, New York
[edit] Companies
- Burke Corporation, a foodservice manufacturer
[edit] People
- See also: Burke (name)
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- Alexandra Burke, X-Factor 2008 winner
- Bernard Burke, (1814–1892) Ulster (King of Arms)
- Bill Burke (born 1969), American middle distance runner
- Brian Burke, Current GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs
- Clan Burke, family of Irish origin
- Declan Burke, English musician
- Edmund Burke, an 18th century Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher
- Elijah Burke, an American professional wrestler
- James Burke (several)
- Joe Burke (keyboardist) (born 1939), Irish accordion player
- Joe Burke (baseball executive) (1924-1992), baseball executive
- Joseph C. Burke, former President of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh
- Joseph Burke (teacher), Canadian teacher convicted of assault in Christian Brothers sex scandal
- Joseph Burke II (1812-1873), Anglo-American collector of plants and animals
- Joe Burke (composer) (1884-1950), American actor, composer and pianist
- Joseph A. Burke (died 1962), Bishop of Buffalo
- Joseph Burke (cricketer), Irish cricket player
- Kathy Burke (born 1964), British actress
- Kenneth Burke, an American literary theorist
- Kevin Burke, an Irish Fiddler, famously in the Bothy Band
- Lauren Burke, American student currently enrolled at Seneca High School
- Leon Burke III, American musician
- Raymond Leo Burke, American Archbishop Emeritus of St. Louis and Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura
- Sonny Burke (1914-1980), American musician
- Thomas Burke, an American lawyer, railroad builder, and judge
- William Burke, a 19th century Irish-Scots serial killer.
- William Joseph Burke (1862-1925), English-born American politician and businessman
[edit] Fictional characters
- Burke (character), the antihero protagonist of a series of novels by Andrew Vachss
- Amos Burke, main character in the TV series Burke's Law
- Preston Burke, fictional doctor on the television series Grey's Anatomy
- Juliet Burke, a character from the TV series Lost
- Leslie Burke, a character from Bridge to Terabithia
- Burke, Carter J., a character from the 1986 movie Aliens (film)
- Burke, a supporting fictional character from the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Robert Burke, a hunter and dinosaur expert in the movie The Lost World: Jurassic Park
[edit] Things
- Burke's Peerage
- Omaha Burke High School, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- Alternate spelling of the British slang word berk.
- Arleigh Burke class destroyer
- Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, Washington, USA
