# Burchard (name)

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
* Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst (1825–1895), Prussian parliamentarian
Burkhard
* Burkhard Gladigow (1939–2022), German scholar of religious studies and classical philology
Burkard
* Burkard Polster (born 1965), mathematician

## Surname

Borchard
* Adolphe Borchard (1882–1967), French pianist and composer
* August Borchard (1864–1940), German physician and surgeon
* Beatrix Borchard (1950), German musicologist and author
* Edwin Borchard (1884–1951), international legal scholar and jurist
* Ian Borchard (1957), former Australian rules footballer
* Joe Borchard (1978), American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder
* Leo Borchard (1899–1945), German-Russian conductor
* Ruth Borchard (1910–2000), British writer
Borchardt
Borchert
* Bernhard Borchert (1863–1945), Baltic German artist in Latvia
* Jochen Borchert (born 1940), German politician
* John R. Borchert, proponent of Borchert's Epochs
* Katrin Borchert (born 1969), German Australian kayaker
* William G. Borchert, American screenwriter
* Wolfgang Borchert (1921–1947), German author
Bouchard
Bourquard
* Claude Bourquard (1937–2011), French fencer
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 (minister), American Presbyterian church leader
* 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
* Brigitte Burchardt (born 1954), German chess player
* Hermann Burchardt (1857–1909), German explorer and photographer
* Regina Burchardt (born 1983), German volleyball player
* Ulla Burchardt (born 1954), German politician
Burckhardt
* Burckhardt, or (de) Bourcard, a family of the Basel patriciate
** Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784–1817), Swiss traveler and orientalist
** Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), Swiss historian of art and culture
** Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907), Swiss psychiatrist
** Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1891–1974), Swiss diplomat and historian
** Titus Burckhardt (1908–1984), Swiss author and traditionalist
** Rudy Burckhardt (1914–1999), Swiss-American filmmaker and photographer
* 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
* Wolfram Burgard (born 1961), German roboticist
Burgert
* Jonas Burgert, German artist
Burghardt
* Anne Burghardt (born 1975), Estonian Lutheran theologian
* Arthur Burghardt (born 1947), American actor
* Günter Burghardt (born 1941), German diplomat
* Jack Burghardt (1929–2002), Canadian news broadcaster and politician
* Marcus Burghardt (born 1983), German cyclist
* Mary Silvina Burghardt (1831–1885), American domestic worker and mother of W.E.B. Du Bois
Burkard
* Chris Burkard (born 1986), American photographer
* Michael Burkard (1947–2024), American poet and educator
* Oscar Burkard (1877–1950), German-American soldier
* Rainer Burkard (born 1943), Austrian mathematician
* Stephen F. Burkard (born 1897), New York state senator
Burkart
* Arturo Burkart (1906–1975), Argentine botanist, see Prosopis
* Claudia Burkart (born 1980), Argentine field hockey player
* Stefan Burkart (1957–2020), Swiss Olympic sprinter
* Thierry Burkart (born 1975), Swiss politician
Burkhard
* Paul Burkhard (1911–1977), Swiss composer
* Willy Burkhard (1900–1955), Swiss composer
Burkhardt
* Delara Burkhardt (born 1992), German politician
* Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt (1861–1914), German mathematician
* Filip Burkhardt (born 1987), Polish footballer
* Marcin Burkhardt (born 1983), Polish footballer
* Nick Burkhardt, fictional Grimm character
Burkhart
* Jackie Burkhart, fictional That '70s Show character
* Morgan Burkhart (born 1972), American baseball player
Burkert
* Herbert Burkert, German law scholar
* Martin Burkert (born 1964), German politician
* Nancy Ekholm Burkert (born 1933), American artist and illustrator
* Rudolf Burkert (1904–1985), German/Czechoslovakian Nordic skier
* Walter Burkert (1931–2015), German classicist