Burks is a

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

. Notable people with the name include: *

Alec Burks Alec Burks (born July 20, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected by the Utah Jazz as the 12th overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft. Burks primarily ...

(born 1991), American basketball player who plays shooting guard and currently plays for the Utah Jazz in the NBA *

Antonio Burks (basketball, born 1980) Antonio Cornell Burks (born February 25, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Europe. At 6'0" (1.83 m), he played as a guard. Burks played at Booker T. Washington ...

(born 1980), American basketball player who plays point guard and has played in the NBA * Antonio Burks (basketball, born 1982), American basketball player who plays guard-forward and has played in the ABA *

Arthur Burks Arthur Walter Burks (October 13, 1915 – May 14, 2008) was an American mathematician who worked in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project that contributed to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. ...

(1915-2008), American mathematician and computer scientist who worked on the ENIAC * Barbara Stoddard Burks (1902–1943), American psychologist *

Charlotte Burks Charlotte Gentry Burks (born October 3, 1942) is a farmer and Democratic party politician in Tennessee who represented the 15th district as State Senator from 1998 until 2015. Burks was born in 1942 in Gainesboro, Tennessee, and lives in Monte ...

(born 1942), American politician * Edward C. Burks (1821-1897), an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia *

Ellis Burks Ellis is a surname of Welsh and English origin. Retrieved 21 January 2014 An independent French origin of the surname is said to derive from the phrase fleur-de-lis. Surname A *Abe Ellis (Stargate), a fictional character in the TV series ''St ...

(born 1964), American baseball player *

Gregory Burks Gregory "Toine" Burks (born 1980) is an American former professional basketball player who spent his eight-year career playing for various teams in Germany between 2003 and 2011. He is , weighs approximately 160 pounds and played the point guard p ...

(born 1980), American former professional basketball player *

Jewel Burks Jewel Melanie Burks Solomon is an American tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist working as the first head of Google for Startups in the U.S. She is managing partner of the investment firm, Collab Capital, focusing on Black entrepreneurship. ...

, American tech entrepreneur and venture capitalist *

Marion E. Burks Marion E. Burks (November 18, 1912 – November 29, 1989) was an American politician, judge, and lawyer. Born in Eldorado, Illinois, Burks graduated from Eldorado Township High School in 1931. Burks received his bachelor's degree from Murray S ...

(1912-1989), American judge and politician *

Martin P. Burks Martin Parks Burks (January 23, 1851 – April 30, 1928) (some sources give the date of his birth as 1850) was born in Bedford County, Virginia. His father was Judge Edward C. Burks, who served on the Supreme Court of Appeals from 1876 to 1882. ...

(1851-1928), an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia *

Mary Fair Burks Mary Fair Burks (July 31, 1914 – July 21, 1991) was an American educator, scholar, and activist during the Civil Rights Movement from Montgomery, Alabama. Burks founded the Women’s Political Council in 1946, which helped initiate the Montgomer ...

(1920–1991), American educator, scholar, and civil rights activist *

Mary Ivy Burks Mary Ivy Burks (December 11, 1920 – February 16, 2007) was an environmental activist who helped create and served as the first president of the Alabama Conservancy, an organization aimed at preserving Alabama's environment. Biography Burks was ...

(1920-2007), American activist *

Michael Burks Michael Burks (July 30, 1957 – May 6, 2012) was an American electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is best known for his tracks, "Everybody's Got Their Hand Out", "I Smell Smoke" and "Hard Come, Easy Go", and variou ...

(1957–2012), American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter *

Oren Burks Oren Spencer Burks (born March 21, 1995) is an American football linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Vanderbilt and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the third round o ...

(born 1995), American football player *

Robert Burks Leslie Robert Burks, A.S.C. (July 4, 1909 – May 11, 1968) was an American cinematographer who worked in many genres, in both black-and-white and color, and who collaborated a number of times with Alfred Hitchcock. Biography Robert Burks ...

(1909–1968), American cinematographer *

Ruth Coker Burks Frances Ruth Coker Burks (born March 19, 1959), also known as the Cemetery Angel, is a former caregiver of AIDS crisis victims and an AIDS awareness advocate based in Arkansas. During the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s, she used her salary as a ...

(born 1959), American HIV activist *

Tommy Burks Fred Thomas Burks (May 22, 1940 – October 19, 1998) was a farmer and Democratic Party politician in Tennessee, United States. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1970 until 1978, and in the Tennessee State Senate from ...

(1940–1998), American politician *

Treylon Burks Treylon Burks (born March 23, 2000) is an American football wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Arkansas and was drafted by the Titans in the first round of the 2022 NFL Dr ...

(born 2000), American football player

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