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