Brainerd (given name)
Brainerd is a masculine given name which may refer to:
- Brainerd Currie, a law professor
- D. Brainerd Holmes, American engineer and business executive, president of Raytheon
- Brainerd Jones, American architect
- Brainerd Kellogg, American professor of rhetoric and English literature
- C. Brainerd Metheny, American football and basketball coach, college athletics administrator and insurance executive