Breakspeare Explained

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, the only English Pope

See also

• Nicholas Breakspear School, English secondary school with academy status situated near St Albans