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Burgo, de Burgo, del Burgo or El Burgo may refer to:
- House of Burke (latinized as de Burgo), an Anglo-Norman clan founded in 1203
- De Burgo baronets, a title in the Baronetage of Ireland
- Bill Burgo (1919–1988), American Major League Baseball player in 1943 and 1944
- Dominic de Burgo (1629–1704), Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin
- Roland de Burgo (died 1589), Roman Catholic and Anglican Bishop of Clonfert
- Thomas Burke (bishop) or Thomas de Burgo (c. 1709–1776), Irish Dominican and Roman Catholic Bishop of Ossory
- Jaime del Burgo (born 1942), Spanish lawyer, politician and historian
- Rufino Segovia del Burgo (born 1985), Spanish footballer
- Burgo Partridge (1935–1963), English author and member of the Bloomsbury Group
- Burgo Fitzgerald, a character in the novel Can You Forgive Her?, by Anthony Trollope
- El Burgo, a village in the province of Málaga in Spain
Usage examples of "burgo".
In this case Burgo was flying in: he was calling, she noted, for a radical solution to something or other, some place or other.
Millie had long ago trained herself not to tremble with agitation every time she saw a picture of Burgo or caught sight of him on TV.
In the same way Burgo himself marvelous generous teasing hug gable bear-like Burgo had vanished mysteriously and suddenly from their lives.
So Millie had learnt to divorce the public image of Burgo Smyth, politician, from the private man she had once known.
He had performed certain introductions for her, for example, including one to Burgo Smyth himself, even though she had not secured that particular interview.
In spite of the cloud which that whole affair had undoubtedly cast on his earlier career, Burgo Smyth had emerged as a junior minister in the new Conservative government of 1970.
Yet as a young man in the early sixties Burgo had exuded an air of vulnerability which appealed to Tory ladies of all ages.
The Tory ladies, so vital to the party, had believed Burgo Smyth to be vulnerable, in need of loving care.
One of the others was thirty-one-year-old Burgo Smyth: he lost his seat, and was able to disappear out of the public eye for the next five or six years until he regained it in 1970.
His friendship with Burgo Smyth, going back to Oxford days when Franklyn Faber had been an Oxford scholar, now what was the truth of that?
But for Imogen Swain and Burgo Smyth at this stormy moment in their lives, the background of Der Rosenkavalier did indeed seem well chosen.
Because nothing mattered to her except him, Burgo had trusted Imogen not to betray him.
It was something which could perhaps have ruined Burgo, condemned him, in his own words, to political death.
In the early sixties Burgo Smyth had sent his love letters overnight by the late post from the House of Commons.
Then for the first time it occurred to Millie that Randall, with his height and rugged dark looks resembled Burgo Smyth as she had once known him.