Buster (nickname)
Buster is a nickname of:
Actors
- William Collier Jr., American actor
- Buster Crabbe, American actor and athlete
- Buster Larsen, Danish comic actor Axel Landing Larsen
- Buster Keaton, American actor, filmmaker, producer and writer
- Buster Merryfield, English actor most famous for his portrayal of 'Uncle' Albert Trotter in the sitcom ''Only Fools and Horses''
Musicians and singers
- Buster Bailey, American jazz musician
- Buster Bennett, American blues saxophonist and vocalist
- Buster Benton, American blues guitarist and singer
- Buster Bloodvessel, English singer of the ska revival band Bad Manners
- Buster Brown (musician), American R&B singer and musician
- Buster Cooper, American jazz trombonist
- Edward "Little Buster" Forehand, soul and blues musician
- Buster Harding, 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, American jazz musician
- Buster Williams, jazz bass player
- Buster Wilson, American jazz pianist
- Prince Buster, Jamaican musician Cecil Bustamente Campbell
In sports
- Buster Adams, American Major League Baseball outfielder
- Buster Bishop, American college golf coach
- Alonzo Boone, American baseball pitcher and manager in the Negro leagues
- Buster Brown (baseball), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Buster Crabbe, Olympic swimmer and actor Clarence Linden Crabbe II
- Jack Craigie, Australian rugby league footballer
- Buster Cupit, American retired golfer
- Buster Douglas, American heavyweight boxer
- Buster Farrer, South African cricketer
- Ángel Figueroa, Puerto Rican basketball player
- Lou Gehrig, American Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player
- Buster Harvey, Canadian National Hockey League winger
- Buster Millerick, American Hall of Fame racehorse trainer
- Buster Mottram, English tennis player
- Buster Narum, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Buster Nupen, South African cricketer
- Buster Olney, American sports journalist
- Buster Posey, American Major League Baseball catcher and first baseman
- Buster Ramsey, American college football player and National Football League player and head coach
- Buster Rhymes, American retired National Football League wide receiver
- Buster Skrine, American National Football League player
- Carl "Buster" Smith, American checkers player
- Vern Stephens, American Major League Baseball shortstop
- Phil Tomney, American baseball shortstop
- Luke Watson (sprinter), British sprinter
Other
- Geoffrey Bailey, English First World War flying ace
- Francis William Beaumont, heir to the Seigneur of Sark, Royal Air Force officer and film producer
- Buster Edwards, member of the gang that perpetrated the Great Train Robbery
- Buster Lloyd-Jones, British veterinarian
- Buster Martin, who claimed to be the oldest employee in the UK
- Lionel Crabb, British Royal Navy and MI6 diver