Burchard (Bouchard, Burckhart, Burkhart, Burkard, Burkhard, Burkert, Borchardt, Burckhardt and variants, Old English Burgheard) are both Germanic given names and surnames, from Burg "castle" and hart "hard". Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Burchard
- Burchard of Würzburg, an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon missionary to the Frankish Empire
- Burchard I, Duke of Swabia (c. 855/860–911)
- Burchard II, Duke of Swabia (c. 883 – 926)
- Burchard III, Duke of Swabia (c. 915 – 973)
- Burchard, Duke of Thuringia (died 908)
- Burchard of Worms (c. 950 – 1025), theologian
- Burchard (archbishop of Vienne) (died 1031)
- Burchard (bishop of Aosta) (died 1068), also Archbishop of Lyon (1033–1034), under the name Burchard III
- Burchard II, Bishop of Halberstadt, 11th-century German cleric and statesman
- Burchard of Basle, 11th-century bishop of Basle
- Burchard of Istria (died 1106/1107)
- Burchard, Bishop of Utrecht, 11th/12th century
- Burchard (fl.Tooltip floruit 1150–1195), second abbot of St. John's Abbey in the Thurtal, see Berchtold of Engelberg
- Burchard of Mount Sion, 13th-century traveler to the Middle East
Burghard
Burkhard
- Burkhard Gladigow (1939–2022), German scholar of religious studies and classical philology
Burkard
Surname
Borchard
Borchardt
Borchert
Bouchard
Bourquard
Burchard
- Almut Burchard, German-Canadian mathematician
- Burchard-Bélaváry family, an aristocratic family of Hungarian origin, originally called Both de Szikava et Bélavár
- Brendon Burchard (born 1977), American author and motivational speaker
- Ernst Burchard (1876–1920), German author and doctor
- Charles Burchard (1810–1879), American politician from Wisconsin
- Horatio C. Burchard (1825–1908), American politician from Illinois
- Johann Burchard, 15th-century church figure
- Johann Burchard Freystein (1671–1718), German lawyer and hymn writer
- Johann Heinrich Burchard (1852–1912), Hamburg lawyer and politician
- Oscar Burchard (1863–1949), German botanist, see List of Euphorbia species (G-O)
- Peter Burchard, author
- Petrea Burchard (born 1955), American actress
- Samuel D. Burchard (politician) (1836–1901), American politician from Wisconsin
- Pablo Burchard (1879–1964), Chilean painter
- Wolf Burchard (*1985), British-German art historian and museum curator
Burchardt
Burckhardt
- Burckhardt, or (de) Bourcard, a family of the Basel patriciate
- Carl Nathanael Burckhardt (1878–1923), Swiss painter and sculptor
- Fabian Burckhardt, Swiss curler
- Johann Jakob Burckhardt (1903–2006), Swiss mathematician and crystallographer
- Johann Karl Burckhardt (1773–1825), German astronomer and mathematician
- Karl Burckhardt-Iselin (1830–1893), Swiss politician
- Martha Burkhardt (1874–1956), Swiss painter
- Max Burckhard (1854–1912), Austrian theatre director
- Walter Burckhardt (1905–1971), Swiss dermatologist
Burgard
Burgert
Burghardt
Burkard
Burkart
Burkhard
Burkhardt
Burkhart
Burkert
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