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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 Ca ...

(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 ...

, 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 r ...

(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 (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 R&B singer best known for his hit, " Fannie Mae". Biography Brown was born in Cordele, Georgia. In the 1930s and 1940s he played harmonica at local clubs and made a ...

(1911–1976), American blues and R&B singer *

Buster Crabbe Clarence Linden Crabbe II (; February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983), known professionally as Buster Crabbe, was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor. He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-meter freestyle swimmi ...

(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 i ...

, 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 (1895–1966), American actor and stunt performer (real name Joseph Frank Keaton) * Buster Larsen, Danish comic film and television actor born Axel Landing Larsen (1920–1993) *Buster Poindexter, a pseudonym of singer

David Johansen David Roger Johansen (sometimes spelled ''David Jo Hansen''; born January 9, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal proto-punk band the New York Dolls. He is also known for his work under ...

(born 1950) *

Buster Posey Gerald Dempsey "Buster" Posey III (born March 27, 1987) is an American former professional baseball catcher. Posey spent his entire twelve-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the San Francisco Giants, from 2009 until his retirement at ...

-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 f ...

'' * 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 American public in th ...

, a comic strip character created in 1902, and the children's shoes associated with that character * Buster Bunny, from ''Tiny Toon Adventures'' *

Buster Capp Buster Capp is a British comic strip series which debuted on 28 May 1960 in the magazine '' Buster'' and ran until January 2000. The character was the mascot of the magazine too. The series is a spin-off of ''Andy Capp'', starring Andy's young son ...

, 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 enorm ...

, 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 deve ...

'' universe * Buster the Bear, a character from the cartoon ''

Fables of the Green Forest is an anime television series based on a series of books published in the 1910s and 1920s by Thornton W. Burgess which ran on the Japanese network Fuji Television from 7 January 1973 to 30 December 1973. It consists of 52 episodes and was p ...

'' * Buster the Nanobot, a boss in '' Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue'' * Buster, Andy's dog in the ''

Toy Story ''Toy Story'' is a 1995 American computer-animated comedy film directed by John Lasseter (in his feature directorial debut This is a list of film directorial debuts in chronological order. The films and dates referred to are a director's fi ...

'' 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 Disn ...

'' * 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 Pri ...

, 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'', 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 Nanna Lüders Jensen (born 23 July 1963) is a Danish songwriter and singer known by the stage name Nanna. She has released several albums as a solo artist since her debut in 1982. In addition to her work as a solo artist, Nanna has featured on a ...

for the Danish television show ''Busters verden''

Computing and technology

* Buster, 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) (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 ''The Paul O'Grady Show'' is a British comedy chat show presented by comedian Paul O'Grady, first shown on 11 October 2004. The programme is a teatime chat show consisting of a mixture of celebrity guests, comic stunts, musical performances, a ...