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 (c. 1100–1159), the only English Pope