Harald Burger (born 1940 in Duisburg) is a Swiss-German linguist.
He received his Ph.D. in 1964 at the University of Zurich.
(His dissertation Belisarius: Edition und Versuch einer Deutung is a study about the baroque author Jacob Bidermann).
In 1975 Burger was appointed full professor of Germanic philology.
In 1990 Harald Burger was naturalized in Switzerland.