Burke (disambiguation) explained

Burke is a surname or given name.

Burke may also refer to:

People

• Burke baronets, two baronetcies created in the Baronetage of Ireland
• Edmund Burke, 18th century politician commonly referenced as simply "Burke"
• House of Burke or House of Burgh, ancient Anglo-Norman noble family
• James Burke: many people with this name including the British science history broadcaster.
• Robert O'Hara Burke, Australian explorer

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)