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Burke is the name of several places:

• in the United States of America:
  • Burke, South Dakota
  • Burke, Virginia
  • Burke (town), New York
  • Burke (village), New York
  • Burke, Solomon
• in Australia:
  • Shire of Burke, Queensland a Local Government Area
  • Division of Burke has been the name of an Australian Electoral Division twice

The town of Bourke, New South Wales in Australia is pronounced the same.

Burke is also a surname and may refer to

• Arleigh Burke, former Admiral of the United States Navy and Chief of Naval Operations.
• Actress and model, Brooke Burke.
• The Clan Burke or Burke Family a family of Irish origin.
• Don Burke an Australian television personality.
• Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and political philosopher.
• James Burke, British Author and Television producer.
• James Lee Burke, an American author and mystery writer.
• Kenneth Burke, American literary theorist and philosopher.
• The editor of Burke's Peerage and Burke's Landed gentry.
• Raymond Leo Burke,Archbishop of St. Louis
• The Australian explorer Robert O'Hara Burke.
• William Burke, one of the two West Port murderers.

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