Buster may refer to:

People

First name

Buster Drayton Moses Buster Drayton (March 2, 1952 – November 20, 2022) was an American boxer who won the IBF world title at light middleweight (154 lb). Drayton turned pro in 1978 and won the vacant IBF light middleweight title with a decision win over Car ...

(born 1952), American boxer *

Buster Glosson Lieutenant General Buster Cleveland Glosson (born March 14, 1942) was the deputy chief of staff for plans and operations at the headquarters of the United States Air Force (USAF) in Washington D.C. He was responsible to the secretary of the Air F ...

, retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general *

Buster Mathis Buster Mathis (June 11, 1943 – September 6, 1995) was an American boxer. Career Mathis had a successful career as an amateur heavyweight boxer. He qualified for a spot in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, but had to withdraw due to an injury. He was re ...

(1943–1995), American heavyweight boxer *

Buster Mathis Jr. Buster Mathis Jr. (born March 25, 1970) is an American former professional boxer who competed in the heavyweight division. Early life Mathis Jr. was the son of Buster Mathis, a heavyweight boxer from the 1960s. The senior Mathis had been invi ...

(born 1970), American heavyweight boxer, son of Buster Mathis *

Buster Mills Colonel Buster Mills (September 16, 1908 – December 1, 1991) was an American outfielder, coach, scout and interim manager in Major League Baseball. A native of Ranger, Texas, in his playing days, he stood (181.6 cm) tall, weighed 195 pou ...

(1908–1991), American Major League Baseball outfielder, coach, scout and interim manager

Surname

Buster (surname) Buster is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Budd Buster (1891-1965), American actor known for B western films *John Buster (born 1941), American physician, director of the team that performed the first embryo transfer resulting i ...

, a surname (including a list of people with the name)

Nickname or stage name

Buster (nickname) Buster is a nickname of: Actors * William Collier Jr. (1902–1987), American actor * Buster Crabbe (1908–1983), American actor and athlete *Buster Keaton (1895–1966), American actor, filmmaker, producer and writer *Buster Merryfield (1920–1 ...

Buster Bloodvessel Douglas Trendle (né Woods; born 6 September 1958), better known as Buster Bloodvessel, is an English singer who has been the frontman of the two-tone band Bad Manners since forming the band in 1976.Larkin, Colin (1997) ''The Virgin Encycloped ...

(born 1958), English singer of the ska revival band Bad Manners *

Buster Brown (musician) Buster Brown (August 15, 1911 – January 31, 1976) was an American blues and Rhythm and blues, R&B singer best known for his hit record, hit, "Fannie Mae (song), Fannie Mae". Biography Brown was born in Cordele, Georgia, Cordele, Georgia. In th ...

(1911–1976), American blues and R&B singer * Buster Crabbe (1908-1983), Olympic swimmer and actor (real name Clarence Linden Crabbe II) *

Dolly Buster Nora Baumberger (née Dvořáková; born 23 October 1969), known by the stage name Dolly Buster, is a Czech-German former pornographic actress, filmmaker, and author. Career Buster has starred in over one hundred X-rated European movies. She is ...

, film producer and director, actress, author, and former porn star (born 1969) *

Prince Buster Cecil Bustamente Campbell (24 May 1938 – 8 September 2016), known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. The records he released in the 1960s influenced and shaped the course of Jamaican contemporary ...

, Jamaican musician (1938–2016) * Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, soul and blues musician *

Buster Keaton Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is best known for his silent film work, in which his trademark was physical comedy accompanied by a stoic, deadpan expression ...

(1895–1966), American actor and stunt performer (real name Joseph Frank Keaton) *

Buster Larsen Axel Landing Larsen known as Buster Larsen (1 September 1920 – 18 December 1993), was a Danish stage, film and TV actor. He had his stage debut on Nørrebros Theater in 1932 aged 12, and his film debut in 1933. Filmography * ''De blaa dre ...

, Danish comic film and television actor born Axel Landing Larsen (1920–1993) *Buster Poindexter, a pseudonym of singer David Johansen (born 1950) * Buster Posey-Gerald Dempsey "Buster" Posey III, former American professional baseball catcher for the San Francisco Giants (born 1987)

Arts and entertainment

Comics

* ''Buster'' (comics), a British comic * ''Buster'' (sport comic), a Swedish comic

Fictional characters

Buster Baxter This is a list of characters featured in the PBS Kids television show ''Arthur'', which is based on the book series by Marc Brown. Arthur, the title character, is the chief protagonist in the anthropomorphism series. Buster, Francine, Muffy, ...

, frequently identified as "Buster the Bunny", star of ''Postcards from Buster'' and originally from the show ''Arthur'' * Buster Blues, in ''

Blues Brothers 2000 ''Blues Brothers 2000'' is a 1998 American musical comedy film directed by John Landis from a screenplay written by Landis and Dan Aykroyd, both of whom were also producers. The film, starring Aykroyd and John Goodman, is a sequel to the 1980 fi ...

'' * Buster Bluth, from ''Arrested Development'' *

Buster Brown Buster Brown is a comic-strip character created in 1902 by Richard F. Outcault. Adopted as the mascot of the Brown Shoe Company in 1904, Buster Brown, along with Mary Jane, and with his dog Tige, became well known to the United States of America ...

, a comic strip character created in 1902, and the children's shoes associated with that character *

Buster Bunny The ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' animated television series features an extensive cast of characters. The show's central characters are mostly various forms of anthropomorphic animals, based on Looney Tunes characters from earlier films and shows. ...

, from ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' * Buster Capp, the eponymous star of the ''Buster'' comic, son of Andy and Flo Capp *

Buster Gonad Buster Gonad is a cartoon character in the British comic '' Viz''. The strip involves the surreal adventures of "the boy with unfeasibly large testicles". During a storm, Buster's gonads were zapped by cosmic rays which enlarged them to an enor ...

, a comic strip character from the magazine ''Viz'' * Buster Moon, one of the main characters from the ''Sing'' franchise *

Buster Kilrain ''The Killer Angels'' is a 1974 historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. The book depicts the three days of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, and the days leading up to it: ...

, from the novel ''The Killer Angels'' and the movie adaptation ''Gettysburg'' (1993) * GAT-X103 Buster Gundam, from the ''

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED is an anime series developed by Sunrise and directed by Mitsuo Fukuda. The ninth installment in the ''Gundam'' franchise, ''Gundam SEED'' takes place in a future calendar era, in this case the Cosmic Era. In this era, mankind has devel ...

'' universe * Buster the Bear, a character from the cartoon '' Fables of the Green Forest'' * Buster the Nanobot, a boss in '' Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue'' * Buster, Andy's dog in the '' Toy Story'' franchise * Buster, antagonist of '' Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure'' * Buster, a puppy owned by Darby in ''

My Friends Tigger & Pooh ''My Friends Tigger & Pooh'' is an American computer-animated children's television series on Disney Channel as part of the Playhouse Disney block. It was inspired by A. A. Milne's ''Winnie-the-Pooh''. The series was developed by Walt Disney T ...

'' * Buster, the monkey mascot of

Price Busters TV Price Busters TV was an unsuccessful shopping channel in United Kingdom launched by entrepreneur Mark Klein in July 2006. It was based in Bulwell, Nottingham. At launch the channel broadcast live daily from 4 pm through until midnight. When Pric ...

, a shopping channel based in the UK

Films and television

* ''Buster'' (film), a film starring Phil Collins * Buster (''MythBusters''), the ''MythBusters'' crash test dummy * ''

Busters verden ''Busters verden'' (Buster's World) is a Danish children's television series and movie from 1984. Based on a play by Bjarne Reuter, ''Buster's verden'' deals with the experiences of young Buster Oregon Mortensen. The television series was a break ...

'', a Danish television show

Music

Buster (band) Buster were an English rock band, formed on the Wirral, near Liverpool, in 1972. Buster sent one song "Sunday" to the UK Singles Chart, and the band were popular especially in Japan, Europe and Australia in the late 1970s. At Christmastime in ...

, an English rock band, formed in Wirral, near Liverpool in 1974 * ''Buster'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the film ''Buster'' * "Buster", the theme song by Nanna Lüders Jensen for the Danish television show ''Busters verden''

Computing and technology

Buster Buster may refer to: People First name *Buster Drayton (born 1952), American boxer *Buster Glosson, retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general *Buster Mathis (1943–1995), American heavyweight boxer *Buster Mathis Jr. (born 1970), American heavyw ...

, an Amiga custom computer chip * Buster, a

multiservice tactical brevity code Multiservice tactical brevity codes are codes used by various military forces. The codes' procedure words, a type of voice procedure, are designed to convey complex information with a few words. American/NATO codes This is a list of American s ...

signaling an aircraft pilot to use maximum continuous power * Buster, the codename of version 10 of the Debian Linux operating system

Animals

Buster (dog) Buster was a dog belonging to Roy Hattersley, a British politician and former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. Buster was a mongrel, as his father was a German Shepherd, and his mother a Staffordshire Bull Terrier. He was a former rescue dog a ...

(died 2009) a dog owned by Roy Hattersley, who wrote a book credited to Buster *

Buster (spaniel) Buster (2002 – 2015), an English Springer Spaniel, was a military detection dog who was active during the Iraq War. Because of his actions in discovering a hidden weapons cache, the dog was credited with saving service personnel from insurgents op ...

(2002–2015), a British military detection dog * Buster (died 2009), a dog owned by Paul O'Grady that regularly appeared on '' The Paul O'Grady Show''