Burke (Irish: de Búrca; Latin: Burgo) is a Norman-Irish surname, deriving from the ancient Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman noble dynasty, the House of Burgh. In Ireland, the descendants of William de Burgh (circa 1160–1206) had the surname de Burgh, which was gaelicised in Irish as de Búrca and over the centuries became Búrc, then Burke, and Bourke.^[1]

Notable people with this name include:

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• Burke Badenhop (born 1983), American professional baseball player
• Burke Boyce (1901–1969), American fencer
• Burke Byrnes (born 1937), American actor
• Burke Cuppage or Sir Burke Douglas Cuppage (1794–1877), British Army officer
• Burke Dales (born 1977), Canadian professional football punter
• Burke Day (1954–2017), American politician
• Burke Deadrich (1945–2012), American wrestler
• Burke Fahling (born 1997), American professional soccer player
• Burke Hanford or Burke Gaius Hanford (1872–1928), American sailor
• Burke Harr (born 1971), American politician from Nebraska
• Burke Henry (born 1979), Canadian professional ice hockey player
• Burke Jackson (born 1949), American rancher and politician
• Burke Jones (1903–1983), American soccer player
• Burke Marshall (1922–2003), American lawyer
• Burke Moses (born 1959), American actor
• Burke Ramsey (born 1987), brother of Jonbenét Ramsey
• Burke Reid, Australian–Canadian record producer and musician
• Burke Riley (1914–2006), American legislator, lawyer and public official
• Burke Roberts, American underground film director and multimedia artist
• Burke Shelley (1950–2022), Welsh rock musician
• Burke Thomas or Burke Thomas Overdrive, American musician and record producer
• Burke Trend, Baron Trend or Burke Frederick St John Trend (1914–1987), British civil servant
• Burke Trieschmann, Vietnamese composer and sound designer
• Burke W. Whitman, American executive, board director, and former United States Marine Corps general
• Charles Burke Elbrick (1908–1983), American ambassador
• Edmond Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy or Edmond Burke Roche (1815–1874), Irish politician
• Edmund Roche, 5th Baron Fermoy or Edmund James Burke Roche (1939–1984), British businessman
• Herschel Burke Gilbert (1918–2003), American orchestrator, musical supervisor, and composer
• James Roche, 3rd Baron Fermoy or James Boothby Burke Roche (1851–1920), British peer
• Mary Burke Washington or Mary Cornelia Burke Washington (formerly Mary Burke Nicholas), (1926–2014), American economist
• Morris Burke Belknap (the elder) or Morris Burke Belknap Sr (1780–1877), American industrialist
• Morris B. Belknap or Morris Burke Belknap Jr or "the younger" (1856–1910), American businessman
• Maurice Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy or Edmund Maurice Burke Roche (1885–1955), British Conservative Party politician
• Maurice Roche, 6th Baron Fermoy or (Patrick) Maurice Burke Roche (born 1967), British businessman
• Nadine Burke Harris (born 1975) is a Canadian-American pediatrician
• Patricia Burke Brogan, Irish playwright, novelist, poet and artist
• Ralph Burke Tyree (1921–1979), American artist
• W. B. Belknap or William Burke Belknap Sr or "the elder" (1811–1889), American businessman
• William Burke Belknap or William Burke Belknap Jr or "the younger" (1885–1965), American entrepreneur and economist
• William B. Garrett III or William Burke Garrett III, American army officer
• William Burke Kirwan (c. 1814–1880?), Irish painter and murderer

• Attorney General Burke (disambiguation)
• General Burke (disambiguation)
• Governor Burke (disambiguation)
• Justice Burke (disambiguation)
• Senator Burke (disambiguation)

• Burke, a character from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Burke, the antihero protagonist of the Burke Series of novels by Andrew Vachss
• Burke, a character from Rampage played by Joe Manganiello
• Burke Breyer, a fictional character in the film Shazam!
• Burke Dennings, a fictional character played by Jack MacGowran in The Exorcist
• Burke Lapadura, a character in the game Identity V
• Burke Ryan, a character in the 2009 American romantic drama movie Love Happens
• Amos Burke, main character in the 1963 television series Burke's Law and its 1994 revival, played by Gene Barry
• Carter J. Burke, a character from the 1986 film Aliens
• Catherine 'Katie' Burke, character in Abandon (film)
• Clyde Burke, a newspaper reporter and one of the agents of The Shadow
• Danny Burke, a character in the 1984 American teen sex comedy movie Revenge of the Nerds
• David Burke, author of a book on Melita Norwood
• David "Bombhead" Burke, a character played by Lee Otway on Hollyoaks
• Doreen Burke, a character from Blow the Man Down (film), played by Marceline Hugot
• Dorothy Burke, a fictional character from the Australian Network Ten soap opera Neighbours
• Elizabeth Burke, a character in the television series White Collar
• Elizabeth Burke, a character in The Faculty
• Hayden Burke, FBI Director from The Silence of the Lambs (film), played by Roger Corman
• Hazel Burke, Shirley Booth's lead character on the NBC/CBS television series, Hazel
• Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran in the novel Double Play from Robert B. Parker
• Juliet Burke, a character from the TV series Lost
• Kevin Burke, a character in the 1998 American sitcom Two of a Kind
• Leslie Burke, a character from Bridge to Terabithia
• DCI Matt Burke, a character in the television series Taggart
• Mel Burke (Hart), a character in the television sitcom Melissa & Joey
• Miss Burke, a character from The Faculty
• Peter Burke, a character from the TV series White Collar
• Preston Burke, a character on Grey's Anatomy
• Dr Richard Burke, Monica's boyfriend on the television sitcom Friends, played by Tom Selleck
• Rick Burke, a character on the television series 24
• Robert Burke, a hunter and dinosaur expert in the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park
• Detective Sam Burke, a policeman in the Spawn series from Image comics
• Steve Burke (One Life to Live), a soap opera character
• Thomas Burke, a character from Final Destination 2
• Thomas Burke, character in Mafia III
• Walter Burke, a character, played by Al Pacino in The Recruit

• Burke (disambiguation)
• De Burgh
• House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193
• Bourke (disambiguation)
• Burk (name), given name and surname
• Burkes, surname
• Burkle (surname), surname
• Berg (disambiguation)
• Berkley (disambiguation)
• Birke, given name and surname
• Burgh, an autonomous corporate entity in Scotland
• Burgos, a city of northern Spain
• Burk (disambiguation)
• Burke and Wills
• Burke and Hare
• Burke's Peerage, account of nobility, first published in 1826 by John Burke
• Burke's Landed Gentry, account of families of the land-holding class, first published in 1833 by John Burke