People
- Breckinridge family political dynasty
- Breckinridge family
- Aida de Acosta Breckinridge, in 1903 flew Santos Dumont's dirigible airship
- Clifton R. Breckinridge, 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 S. 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 D. Breckinridge (died 1849), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
- John Breckinridge (Attorney General) (1760–1806), 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 Breckinridge, officer in the United States Navy in the Spanish-American War
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge, Kentucky suffragette, reformer, and wife of Desha Breckinridge
- Mary Breckinridge (1881–1965), founder of the Frontier Nursing Service
- 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
- Marvin Breckinridge Patterson, American photojournalist, cinematographer, and philanthropist
- Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, principal of Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921
- Breckinridge Long, United States ambassador to Italy
- Others
- Bobby Breckinridge, fictional character in Degrassi
- John Breckinridge Castleman, military officer and prominent landowner and businessman in Louisville, Kentucky
- Robert Breckinridge McAfee, Kentucky politician, and seventh Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
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