title: Brainard (surname)
text: # 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
  