Breakspeare (alternatively Breakspear) is a surname. It may refer to:
Breakspeare Boso Breakspeare (died 1178), Italian Cardinal Cindy Breakspeare (born 1954), Jamaican jazz musician and former model William Breakspeare (1855–1914), English artist
Breakspear Breakspear, pen name of William Lysander Adams (1821–1906), American writer and newspaper editor in Oregon, later a doctor Nicholas Breakspear, birth name of Pope Adrian IV (), the only English Pope
See also Nicholas Breakspear School, English secondary school with academy status situated near St Albans