title: Breckinridge
text: # Breckinridge
  
  Breckinridge may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Breckinridge (surname)
  * Breckinridge family
  * Marvin Breckinridge Patterson (1905–2002), American photojournalist, cinematographer, and philanthropist
  * Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield (1851–1921), principal of Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921
  * Breckinridge Long (1881–1958), United States ambassador to Italy
  * Bobby Breckinridge, fictional character in Degrassi
  * John Breckinridge Castleman (1841–1918), military officer and prominent landowner and businessman in Louisville, Kentucky
  * 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
  * Robert Breckinridge McAfee (1784–1849), Kentucky politician, and seventh Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky
  * James Breckenridge Speed (1844–1912), businessman and philanthropist in Louisville, 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
  