Burke

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Burke may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 1.1 Australia 1.2 Canada 1.3 United States 2 People 3 Fictional characters 4 Other 5 See also

[edit] Places

[edit] Australia

• Burke Shire Council, a local government area in Queensland, Australia
• Division of Burke has been the name of an Australian Electoral Division twice
• Bourke, New South Wales, a town (pronounced "Burke")

[edit] Canada

• Burke Mountain (British Columbia)

[edit] United States

• Burke, Idaho, a ghost town
• Burke, South Dakota
• Burke, Virginia
• Burke (town), New York
• Burke (village), New York
• Burke, Wisconsin
• Burke, Vermont
• Burke County, Georgia
• Burke County, North Carolina
• Burke County, North Dakota

[edit] People

• Clan Burke, family of Irish origin
• Edmund Burke, prominent 18th century Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher
• Kenneth Burke, a major American literary theorist and philosopher of rhetoric and aesthetics

[edit] Fictional characters

• Burke (character), the antihero protagonist of the Burke Series of novels by Andrew Vachss
• Amos Burke, main character in the TV series Burke's Law
• Clyde Burke, a newspaper reporter and one of the agents of The Shadow.
• 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 film Aliens
• Burke, a supporting fictional character from the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Robert Burke, a hunter and dinosaur expert in the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park

[edit] Other

• Burke's Peerage
• Omaha Burke High School, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
• Arleigh Burke class destroyer
• Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, Washington, USA
• John S. Burke Catholic High School, Goshen, Orange County, New York
• Burke Corporation, a foodservice manufacturer

[edit] See also

• Berk (disambiguation)
• Bourke (disambiguation)
• Burk (disambiguation)

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