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Buck Henry
Buck Henry (Buck Henry Zuckerman, 1930–2020), American screenwriter, actor, and director; co-created Get Smart with Mel Brooks, wrote The Graduate, co-directed Heaven Can Wait, hosted SNL ten times.
Buck Island Reef National Monument
Buck Island Reef National Monument is a mostly underwater National Park Service monument north of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands, established by President Kennedy in 1961.
Buck Leonard
Buck Leonard (Walter Fenner Leonard, 1907-1997), Negro Leagues first baseman for the Homestead Grays 1934-50, "Thunder Twins" partner of Josh Gibson, nine straight pennants 1937-45, Hall of Fame 1972.
Buck Martinez
Buck Martinez (John Albert Martinez, born 1948) is a former MLB catcher, Blue Jays manager 2001-02 (100-115), and longtime broadcaster for Toronto, ESPN, and the Orioles; retired 2026.
Buck Newton
Buck Newton is an American Republican politician and lawyer who has served in the North Carolina State Senate since 2010 and was the 2016 Republican nominee for state Attorney General.
Buck O'Neil
Buck O'Neil (John Jordan O'Neil, 1911-2006), Negro Leagues first baseman and manager with the Kansas City Monarchs, first Black AL/NL coach with the 1962 Cubs, Hall of Fame scout, and co-founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, inducted into Cooperstown in 2022.
Buck Owens
Buck Owens (Alvis Edgar Owens Jr., 1929–2006), American country singer-guitarist and Hee Haw co-host who, with Merle Haggard, pioneered the Bakersfield Sound and scored 15 consecutive No. 1 hits, 1963–1967.
Buck passing
Buck passing is a realist international relations strategy in which a threatened state avoids confronting an aggressor, hoping others will bear the balancing costs; theorized by Christensen and Snyder (1990) and central to Mearsheimer's offensive realism.
Buck Rogers
Buck Rogers, also Anthony Rogers, is a science fiction hero created by Philip Francis Nowlan in the 1928 novella Armageddon 2419 A.D., star of the first science fiction comic strip (1929), radio, the 1939 Buster Crabbe serial, and the 1979-1981 NBC series.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction television series on NBC from 1979 to 1981, starring Gil Gerard as an astronaut awakened after 504 years.
Buck Sexton
Buck Sexton (born 1981), American conservative radio host and former CIA analyst, co-host of The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show that replaced Rush Limbaugh's Premiere Networks slot in 2021.
Buck Showalter
Buck Showalter (William Nathaniel Showalter III, born 1956) is an American MLB manager of the Yankees, Diamondbacks, Rangers, Orioles, and Mets; four-time Manager of the Year with four teams, 1,726 wins, no pennant.
Buck Taylor
Buck Taylor (Walter Clarence Taylor III, born 1938), American actor and Western watercolor artist; played Newly O'Brien on Gunsmoke (1967-1975) and Emmett Walsh on Yellowstone; son of actor Dub Taylor.
Buck v. Bell
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927): Supreme Court case upholding Virginia's compulsory sterilization law, 8–1, in Holmes's "three generations of imbeciles" opinion; never overturned.
Buck Weaver
Buck Weaver (George Daniel Weaver) was an American baseball third baseman for the Chicago White Sox, banned for life after the 1919 World Series fix.
Buck–boost converter
A buck–boost converter is a switched-mode DC-to-DC converter whose regulated output can be higher or lower than its input, used in battery-powered, automotive, and telecom supplies.
Buckcherry
Buckcherry is an American hard rock band formed in 1995 in Anaheim, California, fronted by singer Josh Todd. Known for the 1999 gold debut and the platinum 2006 album 15 with the Grammy-nominated hit Crazy Bitch; 11th album Roar Like Thunder (2025).
Bucket and cone
The bucket and cone are a pair of objects held by winged genies in Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs, best known from Ashurnasirpal II's ninth-century BC Northwest Palace at Nimrud.
Bucket argument
The bucket argument is a thought experiment from Isaac Newton's 1687 Principia, where spinning water climbs a bucket's sides, showing rotation relative to absolute space.
Bucket elevator
A bucket elevator is a conveying system that lifts bulk material vertically in buckets fixed along a belt or chain, discharging at the head by centrifugal force, gravity, or controlled flow.
Bucket sort
Bucket sort, or bin sort, is a sorting algorithm that distributes elements into buckets covering subranges of the key space, sorts each bucket, and concatenates them in order.
Bucket truck
A bucket truck, also called a cherry picker, is a truck fitted with a hydraulic boom and bucket for lifting workers to height, used in utility line work and tree care.
Bucket-wheel excavator
A bucket-wheel excavator (BWE) is a continuous surface-mining machine whose rotating bucket wheel scoops material onto onboard conveyors, used worldwide in open pit mining of lignite and other soft deposits.
Buckethead
Buckethead is the stage persona of American guitarist Brian Patrick Carroll (born 1969, Los Angeles), who performs masked with an inverted KFC bucket on his head; known for 300-plus albums, Death Cube K, Praxis, and the Chinese Democracy-era Guns N' Roses.
Buckethead discography
Buckethead discography: output of American guitarist Brian Patrick Carroll (b. 1969), covering 31 main solo albums from Bucketheadland (1992), the numbered Pike mini-album series begun 2011 and reaching past Pike 800, the Death Cube K alias, and collaborations with Praxis, Guns N' Roses, and others.
Bucketplace
Bucketplace (버킷플레이스) is a South Korean company, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seoul, that operates Ohouse (오늘의집), an interior design community and e-commerce platform.
Buckeye (novel)
Buckeye, Patrick Ryan's 2025 Random House/Bloomsbury multigenerational WWII-and-Vietnam home-front novel set in fictional Bonhomie, Ohio; NYT bestseller, Read With Jenna pick, Ohio Book Award finalist.
Buckeye Partners
Buckeye Partners is an American midstream energy company headquartered in Houston, Texas, operating one of the largest independent liquid petroleum pipeline and terminal networks in the United States.
Buckeye Power
Buckeye Power, Inc. is Ohio's not-for-profit generation and transmission electric cooperative, formed in 1959 and owned by the member cooperatives it supplies, serving nearly 400,000 homes and businesses, chiefly through the coal-fired Cardinal Power Plant.
Buckfast Abbey
Buckfast Abbey is a working Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery at Buckfastleigh in Devon, England, on a medieval site founded in 1018 and dissolved in 1539.