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