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'''Burke''' may refer to:
==Places==
====Australia====
* Shire of [[Burke, Queensland]], a [[Local Government Areas in Australia|Local Government Area]]
* [[Division of Burke]] has been the name of an Australian Electoral Division twice
* [[Bourke, New South Wales]], a town (pronounced "Burke")
====Canada====
* [[Burke Mountain (British Columbia)]]
====United States====
* [[Burke, Idaho]], a ghost town
* [[Burke, South Dakota]]
* [[Burke, Virginia]]
* [[Burke (town), New York]]
* [[Burke (village), New York]]
==People==
:''See also: [[Burke (name)]]''
* [[Edmund Burke]], an 18th century [[Anglo-Irish]] statesman, author, orator, [[political theorist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]]
* [[Elijah Burke]], an American [[professional wrestler]]
* [[Clan Burke]], family of Irish origin
* [[James Burke]] (born 1971), baseball player
* [[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
* [[Sonny Burke]] (1914-1980), American musician
* [[Joseph Burke (cricketer)]], Irish cricket player
* [[Raymond Leo Burke]], American Bishop
* [[Thomas Burke]], an American lawyer, railroad builder, and judge
* [[Kenneth Burke]], an American literary theorist
* [[William Burke]], a 19th century Irish-Scots serial killer.
* [[William Joseph Burke]] (1862-1925), English-born American politician and businessman
==Fictional characters==
* [[Burke (character)]], the antihero protagonist of a series of novels by Andrew Vachss
* [[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)|Aliens]]
==Things==
* The editor of [[Burke's Peerage]] and Burke's [[Landed gentry]]
* [[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
==See also==
* [[Bourke]]
* [[Burk]]
* [[Berg]]
* [[Burgos]]
* [[de Burgos]]
* [[Burgh]]
* [[de Burgh]]
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