Burkel or Bürkel is a Germanic surname that may refer to
Dietrich Bürkel (1905–1986), German politician Heinrich Bürkel (1802–1869), German genre and landscape painter Victor van Strydonck de Burkel (1876–1961), Belgian general Charge of Burkel, a skirmish between Belgian and German forces on 19 October 1918, during World War I