Breckinridge

Breckinridge may refer to:

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 (U.S. 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 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 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

Places

In the United States:

• Breckenridge, Colorado, originally spelled "Breckinridge", renamed during the Civil War
• Breckinridge County, Kentucky
• Breckinridge Center, Kentucky

Things

• Breckinridge House, a dormitory at the University of Chicago named for Sophonisba Breckinridge
• Myra Breckinridge, a satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary
• Myra Breckinridge (film), cinematic version of Vidal's novel
• USS Breckinridge (DD-148), a Wickes class destroyer in the United States Navy, named for Joseph Breckinridge

See also

• Brackenridge (disambiguation)
• Breckenridge (disambiguation)