Brainard (surname)
# Brainard (surname)

Brainard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

* Asa Brainard (1841–1888), American baseball pitcher
* Bertha Brainard (1890–1946), American broadcast executive
* Byron B. Brainard (1894–1940), Los Angeles City Council member
* Cam Brainard (born 1962), American voice actor and radio personality
* Cecilia Manguerra Brainard (born 1947), Filipino American writer
* Charles L. Brainard (1903–1988), American presidential library commissioner
* Daniel Brainard (1812–1866), American surgeon
* David H. Brainard (born 1960), American psychologist and vision researcher
* David L. Brainard (1856–1949), American Arctic explorer and soldier
* Edwin H. Brainard (1882–1957), American Marine aviation pioneer
* Ingrid Brainard (1925–2000), German dance historian
* J. Edwin Brainard (1857–1942), Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
* James Brainard (born 1954), Mayor of Carmel, Indiana
* Jeremiah Gates Brainard (c. 1759–1830), Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
* Joe Brainard (1942–1994), American artist
* John Gardiner Calkins Brainard (1795–1828), American lawyer, editor and poet
* Josh Brainard, ex-guitarist for Slipknot
* Lael Brainard (born 1962), member of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors
* Mary Gardiner Brainard (1837–1905), American writer of religious poetry
* Michael Brainard (born 1965), American actor
* William Brainard (born c. 1935), American economist
