Breckinridge (surname)
Breckinridge is a surname, and may refer to:
- Aida de Acosta, in 1903 flew Santos Dumont's dirigible airship
- Cabell Breckinridge, lawyer and politician in Kentucky
- Clifton R. Breckinridge, congressman from Kentucky, Minister to Russia, son of John C. Breckinridge
- Desha Breckinridge, editor and publisher of the Lexington Herald, husband of Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and brother of Sophonisba Breckinridge
- Henry Skillman Breckinridge, lawyer, politician, and Olympic fencer
- James Breckinridge, Virginia lawyer and politician, Revolutionary War soldier and brigadier general in the War of 1812
- James Carson Breckinridge, United States Marine Corps officer
- James D. Breckinridge, U.S. Representative from Kentucky
- John Breckinridge , United States Senator and Attorney General
- John B. Breckinridge, Attorney General of Kentucky and member of the United States House of Representatives
- John C. Breckinridge, Senator from Kentucky, fourteenth Vice President of the United States, and later Confederate general and the last Confederate Secretary of War
- John Cabell Breckinridge, best known as Bunny Breckinridge, American actor
- Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, Sr., officer in the United States Navy in the Spanish–American War
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, Kentucky suffragette, reformer, and wife of Desha Breckinridge
- Mary Carson Breckinridge, founder of the Frontier Nursing Service
- Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge, wife of John C. Breckinridge and Second Lady of the United States
- Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, 1860 supporter of Lincoln over his nephew John C. Breckinridge
- Sophonisba Breckinridge, American activist
- William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, Confederate general and U.S. Representative from Kentucky
