Duster or dusters may refer to:

People

Alfreda Duster Alfreda M. Duster (née Barnett; September 3, 1904April 2, 1983) was an American social worker and civic leader in Chicago. She is best known as the youngest daughter of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells and as the editor of her mother's posthumo ...

(1904–1983), Chicago-based social worker and civic leader, daughter of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, mother of academician Troy Barnett (below) * Anthony

Duster Bennett Anthony "Duster" Bennett (23 September 1946 – 26 March 1976) was a British blues singer and musician. Based in London, his first album ''Smiling Like I'm Happy'' saw him playing as a one-man band, playing a bass drum with his foot and blowing ...

(1946–1976), British blues singer and musician *

Troy Duster Troy Smith Duster (born July 11, 1936) is an American sociologist with research interests in the sociology of science, public policy, race and ethnicity and deviance. He is a Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at University of California, Berkele ...

, American sociologist, grandson of grandson Ida B. Wells-Barnett, son of Alfred Duster (above) * Joseph

Dusty Hill Joe Michael "Dusty" Hill (May 19, 1949 – July 28, 2021) was an American musician who was the bassist of the rock band ZZ Top for more than 50 years. He also sang backing and lead vocals and played keyboards. Hill was born in Dallas, Texas. As ...

(1949–2021), also known as Duster, bassist, keyboardist, and co-vocalist with the American rock group ZZ Top * John Duster Mails (1894–1974), American Major League Baseball pitcher

Arts and entertainment

Duster (band) Duster is an American indie rock band, formed in San Jose, California in 1996. For most of its history, the group consisted of multi-instrumentalists Clay Parton and Canaan Dove Amber alongside drummer Jason Albertini before Albertini left the b ...

, an American slowcore band ** ''Duster'' (Duster album), 2019 * ''Duster'' (Gary Burton album), 1967 *

The Dusters The Dusters are a Nashville-based blues rock trio, formed in 1986 by three college friends, Ken McMahan (guitar and vocals), David Barnette (bass) and Leo Overtoom (drums). The band released three albums on Reptile Records in the US and three on ...

, a Nashville-based blues rock trio * Duster (''Mother 3''), a main character in the game ''Mother 3'' * ''Duster'' (TV series), a 2025 American crime thriller on

Max Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (American dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (British dog), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of the OBE) * Max (gorilla) ...

Cleaning implements

* A device used for

dusting (housekeeping) Housekeeping is the management and routine support activities of running and maintaining an organized physical institution occupied or used by people, like a house, ship, hospital or factory, such as cleaning, tidying/organizing, cooking, shopp ...

Feather duster A feather duster is a cleaning tool that is typically made from a wooden dowel handle onto which feathers are wound with a wire. The feathers are most often long. Some dusters have a retractable casing instead of a dowel handle and these are t ...

, used for housecleaning **

Gas duster A gas duster, also known as compressed air or canned air, is a product used for cleaning or dusting electronic equipment and other sensitive devices that cannot be cleaned using Water#Washing, water. This type of product is most often packaged ...

, used to clean electronics or abused as an inhalant drug * A

chalkboard eraser A chalkboard eraser (sometimes known as a duster in India ) is a special type of eraser specifically used to erase chalk markings on slating paint (used on chalkboards and slates). It is most commonly made of felt strips attached to a handle. Cha ...

Sports teams

* Amarillo Dusters, original name of the

Amarillo Venom The Amarillo Venom were a professional Indoor American football, indoor football team based in Amarillo, Texas. They played their home games at the Amarillo Civic Center. The Venom began play as the Amarillo Dusters in 2004 as a charter member ...

indoor football team *

Binghamton Dusters The Binghamton Dusters were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They played in Binghamton, New York, USA at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena. The team logo was designed by Johnny Hart, artist of the comic strip " B.C." an ...

, an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League *

Broome Dusters The Broome Dusters were an ice hockey team in the North American Hockey League. They played in Binghamton, New York, United States at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena. The team logo was designed by Johnny Hart, artist of the comic stri ...

, a former ice hockey team in the North American Hockey League

Vehicles

* Crop duster, an airplane used for

aerial application Aerial application, or crop dusting, involves spraying crops with crop protection products from an agricultural aircraft. Planting certain types of seed are also included in aerial application. The specific spreading of fertilizer is also known a ...

of pesticides *

Dacia Duster The Dacia Duster is a family of Subcompact crossover SUV, subcompact crossovers produced and marketed jointly by the France, French manufacturer Renault and its Romanian subsidiary Automobile Dacia, Dacia since 2010, currently in its third ge ...

, a Romanian compact sport utility vehicle *

DSK Duster __NOTOC__ The BJ-1 Dyna Mite, or California Sailplanes Duster was a sailplane designed by Ben Jansson in the United States in the 1960s for homebuilding. Design and development A conventional shoulder-wing design with conventional empennage, no ...

, a glider *

Plymouth Duster The original Plymouth Duster is a semi-fastback two-door coupe version of the compact-sized Plymouth Valiant automobile that was marketed by Plymouth in the U.S. from 1970 until 1976 model years. History The Duster coupe provided the compact ...

, an American automobile

Weapons

* Knuckle dusters, another name for

brass knuckles Brass knuckles (also referred to as brass knucks, knuckledusters, iron fist and paperweight, among other names) are a melee weapon used primarily in Hand to hand combat, hand-to-hand combat. They are fitted and designed to be worn around the kn ...

M42 Duster The M42 40 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, or "Duster," is an American armored light air-defense gun built for the United States Army from 1952 until December 1960, in service until 1988. Production of this vehicle was performed by the tank d ...

, a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun

Other uses

Duster, Texas Duster is an unincorporated community in Comanche County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 25 in 2000. History A post office called Duster was established in 1891 and remained in operat ...

, United States, an unincorporated community *

Duster (clothing) A duster is a light, loose-fitting, long Coat (clothing), coat. History The original dusters were full-length, light-colored canvas or linen coats worn by Cowboy, horsemen in the United States to protect their clothing from trail dust. These du ...

, a long, loose coat or housecoat *

Hudson Dusters The Hudson Dusters was a New York City street gang during the early twentieth century. Formation Formed in the late 1890s by "Circular Jack", "Kid Yorke", and "Goo Goo Knox", the gang began operating from an apartment house on Hudson Stre ...

, a New York City street gang in the early twentieth century