Brainerd may refer to:
- Place names
In the United States:
- Brainerd, Minnesota
- Brainerd International Raceway near Brainerd, Minnesota
- Brainerd High School (Minnesota)
- Brainerd (Metra), a train station in Chicago
- Brainerd, Kansas
- Surnames
- David Brainerd, Christian missionary to Native Americans
- Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd, U.S. novelist of the early 20th century
- Ezra Brainerd, president of Middlebury College in Vermont
- Lawrence Brainerd, U.S. Senator from Vermont
- Samuel Myron Brainerd, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
- Other uses
- Brainerd Mission
- Brainerd (band)