Brainard (surname)
Brainard is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Asa Brainard, American baseball pitcher
- Bertha Brainard, American broadcast executive
- Byron B. Brainard, Los Angeles City Council member
- Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Filipino American writer
- Charles L. Brainard, American presidential library commissioner
- Daniel Brainard, American surgeon
- David Legge Brainard, American Arctic explorer and soldier
- Edwin H. Brainard, American Marine aviation pioneer
- Ingrid Brainard, dance historian
- J. Edwin Brainard, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
- Joe Brainard, American artist
- John Gardiner Calkins Brainard, American lawyer, editor and poet
- Josh Brainard, ex-guitarist for Slipknot
- Lael Brainard, member of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors
- Mary Gardiner Brainard, American writer of religious poetry
- Michael Brainard, American actor
- Roger Brainard, American guitarist
- William Brainard, American Economist
