Vernon Joseph Bourke (1907–1998) was a Canadian-born American Thomist philosopher and professor at Saint Louis University.
His area of expertise was ethics, and especially the moral philosophy of Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas.
He attended St. Michael's College in Toronto, winning the Cardinal Mercier and Governor General's medals in the philosophy honors course.
Bourke was the President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association in 1948 and an honorary member of the Order of St. Augustine.
He was a member of the Natural Law Board at the University of Notre Dame and belonged to the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.