Brainerd is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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David Brainerd
David Brainerd (April 20, 1718October 9, 1747) was an American Presbyterian minister and missionary to the Native Americans among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. Missionaries such as William Carey and Jim Elliot, and Brainerd's cousin, the ...
(1718–1747), Christian missionary to Native Americans, brother of John
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Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd (1868–1942), U.S. novelist of the early 20th century
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Elizabeth L. Brainerd (born 1963), American biologist
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Ezra Brainerd (1844–1924), president of Middlebury College in Vermont
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John Brainerd (1720–1781), Presbyterian minister and missionary, brother of David
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John Grist Brainerd
John Grist Brainerd (August 7, 1904 – February 1, 1988) was an American electrical engineer who served as principal investigator on the project to build ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. Later, he was dean of the Moo ...
(1904–1988), American computer pioneer
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Lawrence Brainerd
Lawrence Brainerd (March 16, 1794May 9, 1870) was an American businessman, abolitionist and United States Senator from Vermont. A longtime anti-slavery activist, after leaving the Jacksonians in the 1830s, Brainerd was active in the Whig, Lib ...
(1794–1870), U.S. Senator from Vermont
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Paul Brainerd (born 1947), American businessman, computer programmer and philanthropist
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Samuel Myron Brainerd (1842–1898), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
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Sibyl Brainerd (1896–1997), another name for Sibyl Anikeef, American photographer
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Tereasa Brainerd, astronomer
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