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Buddy Friedrichs
Buddy Friedrichs (George Shelby Friedrichs, Jr., 1940-1991), New Orleans sailor and Southern Yacht Club member, won Dragon class gold at the 1968 Acapulco Olympics with crew Jahncke and Schreck, plus multiple North American, European, and world Dragon titles.
Buddy Games: Spring Awakening
Buddy Games: Spring Awakening (2023) is a Josh Duhamel-directed R-rated comedy sequel to Buddy Games, in which friends steal a dead buddy's ashes and clash with spring breakers; released May 19, 2023 in theaters, June 2 digitally.
Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy (George Guy, born 1936, Lettsworth, Louisiana) is the Chicago electric blues master, Chess Records house guitarist, 9-time Grammy winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2005 inductee, and owner of Buddy Guy's Legends.
Buddy Hackett
Buddy Hackett, born Leonard Hacker (1924-2003), was an American stand-up comedian and actor of the Borscht Belt tradition, famous for raunchy Las Vegas nightclubs, Stanley, The Music Man, The Love Bug, and voicing Scuttle in The Little Mermaid.
Buddy Hield
Buddy Hield (Chavano Rainer Hield), Bahamian NBA shooting guard born 1992 in Freeport; 2016 Wooden Award winner at Oklahoma, drafted 6th overall by New Orleans; career 39.5% three-point shooter for Pelicans, Kings, Pacers, 76ers, Warriors, Bulls.
Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly, born Charles Hardin Holley, was an American rock and roll pioneer from Lubbock, Texas, known for "Peggy Sue" before dying in a 1959 plane crash at 22.
Buddy Holly (song)
Weezer song "Buddy Holly", from the 1994 Blue Album, written by Rivers Cuomo, produced by Ric Ocasek, with a Spike Jonze Happy Days video that won four MTV VMAs and shipped on Windows 95 CDs.
Buddy Holly discography
Buddy Holly discography: the recorded output of Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley), covering 1956–1959 lifetime releases on Decca, Brunswick, and Coral, the Crickets credit split, chart peaks, and the extensive posthumous catalog of overdubbed demos and reissues.
Buddy Leach
Buddy Leach (Anthony Claude Leach Jr., 1934-2022), Louisiana Democratic congressman (1979-1981), state representative, 2003 gubernatorial candidate, and state Democratic Party chairman 2010-2012.
Buddy MacKay
Kenneth Hood "Buddy" MacKay Jr. (1933–2024), Florida's 42nd governor for three weeks in 1998–99 after Lawton Chiles died; also state legislator, three-term congressman, two-term lieutenant governor, and 1998 Jeb Bush election loser.
Buddy Matthews
Buddy Matthews (Matthew Adams, born 1988, Melbourne) is an Australian wrestler in AEW, formerly WWE's Buddy Murphy. NXT Tag Team, WWE Cruiserweight, Raw Tag Team, and AEW World Trios Champion with House of Black.
Buddy Melges, Jr.
Buddy Melges, Jr. (Harry C. Melges, Jr., 1930–2023) was an American competitive sailor from Wisconsin who won Olympic gold and bronze medals and the 1992 America's Cup.
Buddy Miles
Buddy Miles (George Allen Miles Jr., 1947-2008), Omaha-born rock and R&B drummer and vocalist, drummer in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, founding member of the Electric Flag, leader of the Buddy Miles Express, and lead singer of the California Raisins ads.
Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich (1917-1987), American jazz drummer and bandleader, self-taught vaudeville prodigy "Traps, the Drum Wonder"; swing bands of Shaw and Dorsey, Krupa drum battles, and his 1966-1987 big band.
Buddy Rogers (wrestler)
Buddy Rogers (Herman Rohde, 1921-1992), the original "Nature Boy," was an American pro wrestler, NWA World Champion 1961-63 and first WWWF/WWE Champion, lost to Bruno Sammartino in 48 seconds in 1963; his persona inspired Ric Flair.
Buddy Ryan
Buddy Ryan (James David Ryan, 1934-2016), NFL defensive coach, creator of the 46 defense; won Super Bowls with the 1969 Jets and 1985 Bears; head coach of the Eagles and Cardinals; father of coaches Rex and Rob Ryan.
Buddy Ullman
Buddy Ullman is a biochemist and molecular biologist known for building cell culture models of purine metabolism defects and for decades of molecular parasitology research on Leishmania.
Buddy Valastro
Buddy Valastro (Bartolo Valastro Jr.), the Cake Boss, American baker and reality TV star who took over Carlo's Bakery in Hoboken at 17, hosted TLC's Cake Boss (2009-2020), and expanded it to about 20 locations.
Buddy Wayne
Buddy Wayne: ring name shared by Steve Finley (1967–2017), Pacific Northwest wrestler and trainer of Darby Allin and Nick Wayne, and Dwayne Peale (d. 2015), Memphis wrestler and promoter.
Budenovskoye
Budenovskoye is a uranium deposit in the Shu-Sarysu province of southern Kazakhstan, described as the world's biggest sandstone-hosted roll front deposit and mined by Kazatomprom-led ventures.
Budesonide
Budesonide, a non-fluorinated 16α,17α-acetal corticosteroid developed by Astra (approved 1981), is an inhaled asthma/COPD anti-inflammatory and enteric-coated Crohn's disease treatment, also combined with formoterol (Symbicort) and albuterol (Airsupra).
Budesonide/formoterol
Budesonide/formoterol (Symbicort) is an ICS-LABA combination inhaler for asthma and COPD, approved in the US in 2006 and central to SMART/MART maintenance-and-reliever regimens.
Budge Budge Generating Station
Budge Budge Generating Station is a 750 MW coal-fired power station owned by CESC Limited at Budge Budge, West Bengal, India, with units commissioned in 1997, 1999, and 2010.
Budgerigar
Budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus), budgie or parakeet: small Australian nomadic parrot, 18-20 cm, about 30 g, IUCN Least Concern. Open-ended vocal learner that mimics human speech; domesticated since 1840s, world's most known pet bird, model for speech neuroscience.
Budget
A budget, also called a budgeting process, is a government's plan for raising and spending public money over a fiscal year, usually adopted before the year begins.
Budget constraint
A budget constraint is the equation stating that spending on goods cannot exceed income, p₁x₁ + p₂x₂ ≤ m; its boundary, the budget line, shows affordable bundles.
Budget Control Act of 2011
The Budget Control Act of 2011 is a US federal law that raised the debt limit in exchange for ten years of capped spending and automatic sequestration cuts.
Budget impact analysis
Budget impact analysis is a pharmacoeconomic method estimating the annual net cost to a health system or payer of adopting a new intervention over about 1 to 5 years.
Budget of NASA
The budget of NASA, also called the NASA budget, is the annual federal funding for the agency, about $24.8 billion in fiscal 2025, down from an Apollo-era peak of 4.4 percent of federal spending in 1966.
Budget of the European Union
The budget of the European Union, also called the EU budget, is the EU's annual and multiannual spending plan, financed from member-state contributions, spending €191.1 billion in 2024.