buddy

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Buddy may refer to:

• A friend or a partner for a particular activity
• Buddy (dog), pet of former U.S. President Bill Clinton
• Buddy memory allocation, a dynamic memory allocation system for computers
• Buddy system, any system in which two people work together, especially for safety reasons

In Brands and products

• Buddy (scooter), a motorscooter sold in the U.S. by Genuine Scooters and manufactured by PGO Scooters
• Buddy (electric car)

In Entertainment and the arts

• Buddy (band), a California indie pop band
• Buddy (film), a 1997 motion picture about a gorilla named Buddy
• United Buddy Bears, an international art exhibition
• Buddy (2003 film), a Norwegian film
• "Buddy" (song), a 1989 song by De La Soul
• Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story, a jukebox musical on the career of Buddy Holly
• B.U.D.D.Y., a 2007 single by Musiq Soulchild
• Buddy (novel), a 1982 novel by Nigel Hinton
• Buddy (comics), a 1980s DC Thompson publication

Buddy is the name of:

As a given name or nickname:

• Buddy Bell, American baseball player
• Charles F. Buddy, first Roman Catholic bishop of San Diego, California
• Buddy Cianci (nickname for Vincent Cianci), long-time mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
• Buddy DeFranco, American jazz clarinetist
• Buddy Dyer, mayor of Orlando, Florida
• Buddy Ebsen, American actor best known for his role in The Beverly Hillbillies
• Lance "Buddy" Franklin, Australian Rules Football player
• Buddy Greco, American jazz and pop singer and pianist
• Buddy Guy, American guitarist
• Buddy Hackett, American actor and comedian
• Buddy Holly, pioneering American rock and roll musician
• Buddy Jewell, American country musician
• Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer and bandleader
• Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American actor and jazz musician
• "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers, American professional wrestler

As the name of fictional characters:

• Buddy Hobbes, the character played by Will Ferrell in the film Elf
• Buddy (Looney Tunes), an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes
• Buddy (The Short Circus), a member of The Short Circus on the American television series The Electric Company
• Buddy Lembeck, a character on the 1980s situation comedy Charles in Charge
• Buddy Bradley, the protagonist of Peter Bagge's comic book Hate!
• Buddy Pine, the alter ego of Syndrome, the supervillain from the 2004 film "The Incredibles"
• Little Buddy, The Skipper's pet name for Gilligan on the TV series Gilligan's Island
• Buddy Cole, recurring character from the Canadian sketch-comedy show The Kids In The Hall portrayed by Scott Thompson.

See also

• Bud (disambiguation)
• Buddies (disambiguation)

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