Buster

Buster may refer to:

People

Musicians and singers

• Buster Bailey (1902–1967), American jazz musician
• Buster Bennett (1914–1980), American blues saxophonist and vocalist
• Buster Benton (1932–1996), American blues guitarist and singer
• Buster Bloodvessel (real name Douglas Trendle) (born 1958), English singer of the ska revival band Bad Manners
• Buster Brown (musician) (1911–1976), American blues and R&B singer
• Buster Cooper (born 1929), American jazz trombonist
• Buster Harding (1917–1965), Canadian jazz pianist, composer and arranger
• Buster Meikle, singer and guitarist, formerly with Unit 4 + 2 and Buster & Bill
• Buster Poindexter, a pseudonym of singer David Johansen
• Buster Smith (1904–1991), American jazz musician
• Buster Williams (born 1942), jazz bass player
• Buster Wilson (1897–1949), American jazz pianist
• Prince Buster (Cecil Bustamente Campbell) (born 1938), Jamaican musician

Actors

• Buster Crabbe (1908–1983), American actor and athlete
• Buster Keaton (1895–1966), American actor from the silent film era
• Buster Larsen (1920–1993), Danish comic film and television actor
• Buster Merryfield (1920–1999), English actor most famous for his portrayal of 'Uncle' Albert Trotter in the sitcom Only Fools and Horses
• Dolly Buster (Kateřina Nora Baumberger) (born 1969), film producer and director, actress, author, and former porn star

Athletes

• Buster Brown (baseball) (1881–1914), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Buster Drayton (born 1952), American boxer
• James Douglas (boxer) (born 1960), better known as Buster Douglas, heavyweight boxer
• Buster Mathis (1943–1995), American heavyweight boxer
• Buster Mathis, Jr. (born 1970), American heavyweight boxer, son of Buster Mathis
• Buster Mills (1908–1991), American Major League Baseball outfielder, coach, scout and interim manager
• Buster Mottram (born 1955), English tennis player
• Buster Narum (1940–2004), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• Buster Nupen (1902–1977), South African cricketer
• Buster Olney (born 1964), sports journalist
• Buster Posey (born 1987), Major League Baseball catcher and first baseman
• Buster Ramsey (1920–2007), American college football player and National Football League player and head coach
• Buster Rhymes (born 1962), American retired football wide receiver

Other

• Buster Edwards (1931–1994), member of the gang that perpetrated the Great Train Robbery
• Buster Glosson, retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general
• Buster Lloyd-Jones (1914–1980), British veterinarian
• Buster Martin, who claimed to be the oldest employee in the UK
• Lionel Crabb (1909-1956?), nicknamed Buster, British Royal Navy and MI6 diver
• John Buster, director of the team that performed the first embryo transfer resulting in a live birth

In film and television

• Buster (film), a film starring Phil Collins
  • Buster (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the film
• "Buster", theme song by Nanna Lüders Jensen for the Danish television show Busters verden
• Buster, the Mythbusters crash test dummy
• Buster Bluth, a character from Arrested Development
• Buster Kilrain, a character from the novel The Killer Angels and the 1993 movie adaptation Gettysburg
• Buster, the monkey mascot of Price Busters TV, a shopping channel based in the UK
• Buster, Andy's dog in the Toy Story franchise
• Buster Blues, a character in Blues Brothers 2000

In cartoons and computer games

• Buster (comics), a British comic
  • Buster Capp, eponymous star of the comic, son of Andy and Flo Capp
• Buster (sport comic), a Swedish comic
• Buster Brown, a comic strip character created in 1902, and the shoes associated with that character
• Buster Gonad, a comic strip character from the magazine Viz
• Buster Bunny, a character from Tiny Toon Adventures
• Buster Baxter, frequently identified as "Buster the Bunny", star of Postcards from Buster and originally from the show Arthur
• Buster, a puppy owned by Darby in My Friends Tigger & Pooh
• Buster, the general term for various kinds of weapons in the Mega Man universes
• Buster sword, sword used by Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII
• Buster Tank, the name of Sherman and Spinner Cortez's tank in Hot Wheels Battle Force 5
• GAT-X103 Buster Gundam, from the Mobile Suit Gundam SEED universe
• Buster the Nanobot which appeared in Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue as a boss.

Other

• Buster (dog), a dog belonging to Roy Hattersley, who has published his diaries (ghost written by Hattersley)
• Buster, a brevity code signaling an aircraft pilot to use maximum continuous power
• The Amiga custom computer chip "Buster"

See also

• Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, soul and blues musician