Bernard Kilkeary (1827 – after 1902) was Irish soldier and survivor of HMS Birkenhead. Kilkeary was born in what is now Birr, County Offaly (then Parsonstown, King's County). He joined the British Army as a youth, serving in the 73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot. He was one of the few survivors of the Birkenhead which went down at two o'clock in the morning on 28 February 1852. He was aboard the cutter which rescued women and children as she sank. Twelve hours later, they themselves were rescued by the schooner, Lioness, of Cape Town. As of 1902, he was residing at Dungannon, County Tyrone.