Breckinridge is a surname, and may refer to:
Aida de Acosta (, 1884–1962), in 1903 flew Santos Dumont's dirigible airship Cabell Breckinridge (1788–1823), lawyer and politician in Kentucky Clifton R. Breckinridge (1846–1932), congressman from Kentucky, Minister to Russia, son of John C. Breckinridge Desha Breckinridge (1867–1935), editor and publisher of the Lexington Herald, husband of Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and brother of Sophonisba Breckinridge Henry Skillman Breckinridge (1886–1960), lawyer, politician, and Olympic fencer James Breckinridge (1763–1833), Virginia lawyer and politician, Revolutionary War soldier and brigadier general in the War of 1812 James Carson Breckinridge (1877–1942), United States Marine Corps officer James D. Breckinridge (died 1849), U.S. Representative from Kentucky John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General) (1760–1806), United States Senator and Attorney General John B. Breckinridge (1913–1979), Attorney General of Kentucky and member of the United States House of Representatives John C. Breckinridge (1821–1875), 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. (1842–1920), officer in the United States Navy in the Spanish–American War Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872–1920), Kentucky suffragette, reformer, and wife of Desha Breckinridge Mary Carson Breckinridge (1881–1965), founder of the Frontier Nursing Service Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge (1826–1907), wife of John C. Breckinridge and Second Lady of the United States Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (1800–1871), 1860 supporter of Lincoln over his nephew John C. Breckinridge Sophonisba Breckinridge (1866–1948), American activist William Campbell Preston Breckinridge (1837–1904), Confederate general and U.S. Representative from Kentucky William Robertson "Bill" Breckinridge (1907–1958), Major League pitcher, briefly, and longtime Tulsa attorney