Burke
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Burke may refer to:
[edit] Places
[edit] 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")
[edit] Canada
[edit] United States
- Burke, Idaho, a ghost town
- Burke, South Dakota
- Burke, Virginia
- Burke (town), New York
- Burke (village), New York
[edit] People
- Edmund Burke, an 18th century Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher
- Burke (name), includes name origin, and people with the name
- Clan Burke, family of Irish origin
- Joseph C. Burke, former President of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh
- Thomas Burke, an American lawyer, railroad builder, and judge
- Kenneth Burke, an American literary theorist
- William Burke, a 19th century Irish-Scots serial killer.
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] See also
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