Pembroke is a home rule-class city in Christian County, Kentucky, in the United States.

The town was settled in 1836 and named for Pembroke Somerset, Esq.,[5] a character in Jane Porter's 1803 novel Thaddeus of Warsaw, by Dr. Lunsford Lindsay, a local store owner.

[7] U.S. Route 41 passes through the town as Nashville Street, leading northwest 9 miles (14 km) to Hopkinsville, the county seat, and southeast 14 miles (23 km) to Guthrie at the Tennessee border.

[4] As of the census[9] of 2000, there were 797 people, 305 households, and 214 families residing in the city.

26.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.