Public Officials
- Thomas Burke (North Carolina) (c. 1747–1783), Irish-born physician, lawyer and politician
- Sir Thomas Burke, 3rd Baronet (1813–1875), Irish legislator
- Thomas Henry Burke (civil servant) (1829–1882), Irish Catholic Permanent Under Secretary in Britain's Irish Office
- Thomas Henry Burke (politician) (1904–1959), American politician from Ohio
- Thomas Burke (Seattle) (1849–1925), American jurist and railroad builder
- Thomas Burke (Clare politician) (1908–1951), Irish independent legislator
- Thomas J. Burke (North Dakota) (1896–1966), American jurist ; justice of North Dakota Supreme Court
- Thomas A. Burke (1898–1971), American Democratic city executive and legislator from Ohio
- Tom Burke (Australian politician) (1910–1973), Labor Party legislator for the Division of Perth
- Sir Thomas Kerry Burke (born 1942), New Zealand Labour Party Member of Parliament for Rangiora and West Coast
- T. J. Burke (Thomas James Burke, born 1972), American-born Canadian legislator
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