Breda (name)

Breda is a given name and a surname which may refer to:

• Carl Frederik von Breda (1759–1818), Swedish painter
• David Breda (footballer, born 1971), Czech former footballer
• David Breda (footballer, born 1996), Czech footballer
• Ernesto Breda, Italian engineer and industrialist, founder of Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, an Italian manufacturing company
• François Bréda (1956–2018), Romanian essayist, poet, literary critic and literary historian
• Giovanni Battista Breda (1931–1992), Italian fencer
• Lurdes Breda (born 1970), Portuguese writer
• Roberto Breda (born 1969), Italian football coach and former player
• Toussaint Bréda, better known as Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803), leader of the Haitian Revolution
• William Breda (1927–2004), American baseball player in the Negro leagues

• Breda Beban (1952–2012), Serbian filmmaker and artist
• Breda O'Brien (born 1962), Irish teacher and newspaper columnist
• Breda Pergar, Yugoslav distance runner
• Breda Smolnikar (born 1941), Slovene writer

• Van Breda, a surname