Sir Alasdair Muir Breckenridge, CBE, FRCP, FRCPE, FRSE, FMedSci (7 May 1937 – 12 December 2019) was a Scottish pharmacologist.
Leaving St Andrews and Dundee, he worked as a lecturer then senior lecturer at the Hammersmith Hospital and at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (from 1964 to 1974) in London, after which he was professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Liverpool (until 2002).
[5] He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1995 Birthday Honours for services to medicine and to health care[6] and knighted in the 2004 New Year Honours for services to medicine.
[4][8] He won the Paul Martini prize in Clinical Pharmacology in 1974[3] and the Goulstonian lecturership at the Royal College of Physicians in 1975.
Upon his retirement from Liverpool and the National Health Service, a Festschrift was held there in his honour.