Burke

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Burke may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Shire of Burke, Queensland, a 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

• Edmund Burke, an 18th century British politician
• Burke (name), includes name origin, and people with the name
• Clan Burke, family of Irish origin
• Thomas Burke, an American lawyer, railroad builder, and judge

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

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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