John Ely Burchard (December 8, 1898 Marshall, Minnesota - December 25, 1975 Boston) was an American professor and dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He was President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1954 to 1957.
He attended the University of Minnesota for two and a half years, served in World War I, and returned to study at MIT, obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1923 and a master's in 1925.
Burchard was the first dean of MIT's School of Humanities and Social Science, serving from 1950 to 1969.
[1] The John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities is an endowed chair named in his honor.