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Butch Davis

Butch Davis, American football coach; head coach of the NFL Cleveland Browns 2001-2004 (24-35, one 2002 playoff berth) and Miami Hurricanes 1995-2000 (51-20, 2000 Sugar Bowl win), later UNC head coach.

Butch Harmon

Butch Harmon (Claude Harmon, Jr., born 1943, Detroit) is an American golf instructor, former PGA Tour player and B.C. Open winner, Golf Digest's top-ranked teacher, coach to Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson, and Sky Sports analyst.

Butch Hartman

Butch Hartman (born 1965) is an American animator who created Nickelodeon's The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, T.U.F.F. Puppy, and Bunsen Is a Beast, and later founded Butch Hartman Studios.

Butch Johnson

Butch Johnson was the used name of Richard Andrew Johnson, an American recurve archer who competed at five consecutive Olympics from 1992 to 2008, winning team gold in 1996 and bronze in 2000.

Butch Jones

Butch Jones (Lyle Allen Jones, born 1968) is an American college football coach, head coach at Arkansas State since 2021, formerly head coach at Central Michigan, Cincinnati, and Tennessee (fired 2017), with four conference titles.

Butch Patrick

Butch Patrick (Patrick Alan Lilley, born 1953) is an American actor famous as Eddie Munster on CBS's The Munsters (1964–66); later Lidsville, Eddie and the Monsters, and convention appearances.

Butch Reed

Butch Reed (Bruce Franklin Reed, 1954-2021), American pro wrestler, "Hacksaw" in Mid-South, "The Natural" in WWF, and Doom tag champion with Ron Simmons in WCW; never actually played in the NFL.

Butch Reynolds

Butch Reynolds (Harry Lee Reynolds Jr., born 1964, Akron, Ohio), American 400m runner; set 43.29 world record in Zurich 1988, 1988 Olympic 400m silver and relay gold, IAAF suspension case, USATF Hall of Fame 2016.

Butch Trucks

Butch Trucks (Claude Hudson Trucks, 1947–2017) was an American drummer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band, playing 1969–2014 in its two-drummer section with Jaimoe; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1995.

Butch Vig

Butch Vig (Bryan Vigorson, born 1955, Viroqua, Wisconsin) is the American producer of Nirvana's Nevermind, Smashing Pumpkins' Gish and Siamese Dream, and drummer/co-founder of Garbage; he co-founded Smart Studios in Madison.

Butch Walker

Butch Walker (Bradley Glenn Walker III, born 1969, Rome, Georgia) is an American singer-songwriter and producer, frontman of Marvelous 3 ("Freak of the Week"), solo artist from 2002, and producer for Avril Lavigne, P!nk, Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy, and Green Day.

Butchart Gardens

The Butchart Gardens, a 55-acre display garden in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia, created from 1904 by Jennie Butchart in an exhausted limestone quarry; National Historic Site of Canada since 2004, family run, over one million visitors yearly.

Butcher

Butcher: a person who slaughters animals or cuts, trims, and prepares meat for sale; also a butcher shop. Covers trade tasks, training, wages, safety, history from guilds to supermarkets, and whole-animal buying economics.

Butcher Babies

Butcher Babies: Los Angeles heavy metal band formed 2010, named after Wendy O. Williams' "Butcher Baby"; co-lead singers Heidi Shepherd and Carla Harvey, Century Media albums Goliath through NIGHTBLOOM (2026).

Butcher Hollow, Kentucky

Butcher Hollow (locally "Butcher Holler") is a small community in Johnson County, eastern Kentucky, near Van Lear, known as the birthplace of Loretta Lynn and childhood home of Crystal Gayle, with Lynn's cabin open for tours.

Butcher's Crossing

Butcher's Crossing is a 1960 revisionist western novel by John Williams, also the author of Stoner. Will Andrews, an Emerson-inspired Harvard dropout, joins a buffalo-hunting expedition into the Colorado Rockies that ends in slaughter, snowbound winter, and a changed world. A 2022 film adaptation starring Nicolas Cage followed.

Butcher's Crossing (film)

Butcher's Crossing is a 2023 American Western directed by Gabe Polsky, adapted from John Williams's 1960 novel, starring Nicolas Cage as buffalo hunter Miller and Fred Hechinger as Harvard dropout Will Andrews; premiered at TIFF 2022, released by Saban Films in October 2023.

Butea

Butea (palash, flame-of-the-forest) is a Fabaceae genus of five accepted species native from the Indian subcontinent to Indo-China, known for orange-scarlet bird-pollinated flowers, lac insect host use, and Ayurvedic medicine.

Butea monosperma

Butea monosperma (Palash, पलाश, Flame of the Forest, Dhak) is a Fabaceae tree of the Indian subcontinent and Indochina with scarlet flowers, sacred in Hinduism, used in Ayurveda, IUCN Least Concern.

Butehamun

Butehamun, also written Butehamon, was a Theban scribe of the royal necropolis who oversaw the reburial of the New Kingdom pharaohs' mummies in secret caches.

Butembo

Butembo, a commercial city in northern North Kivu, DRC, on the RN2 between Beni and Lubero; Nande merchant hub, city status 2003, over 1.2 million residents by 2024, 11.85% annual urbanization.

Butenafine

Butenafine is a synthetic topical antifungal drug, the first and only benzylamine, used as a 1% cream for athlete's foot, ringworm, jock itch, and tinea versicolor since 1996.

Buteo

Buteo (buzzards, buteonine hawks) is a genus of 25-28 soaring Accipitridae raptors with Neotropical origin; molecular studies show traditional Buteo is not monophyletic, prompting transfers of Asturina, Geranoaetus, Rupornis, and Percnohierax species.

Buteo lagopus

Buteo lagopus, the rough-legged hawk (Eurasian rough-legged buzzard; French Buse pattue), is a large Arctic-breeding buteo raptor with feathered legs, black carpal patches, hovering flight, and a lemming-and-vole diet, wintering in open country of northern North America and Eurasia.

Buteo regalis

Buteo regalis, the ferruginous hawk (Busardo herrumbroso, Buse rouilleuse), is the largest North American buteo, a grassland raptor of the western US and Canada that eats prairie dogs, ground squirrels, and jackrabbits and nests on trees, structures, or the ground.

Buteogallus

Buteogallus (black-hawks) is a genus of nine American Accipitridae hawks, from the Common Black Hawk to the Solitary Eagle, revised by molecular phylogenies that merged Harpyhaliaetus and part of Leucopternis into the genus.

Buteyko method

Buteyko method, or Buteyko breathing technique (VEDB), a 1950s Soviet breathing retraining method by Konstantin Buteyko using nasal breathing and breath holds; trials show reduced reliever use and better quality of life in asthma, without lung function change.

Buthidae

Buthidae (C.L. Koch, 1837), the largest scorpion family with about 1,320 species in 94 genera, found worldwide except Antarctica and New Zealand; slender pincers, triangular sternum, and nearly all medically significant, venomous species.

Butia

Butia (Becc.) Becc. is a South American palm genus (Arecaceae, Arecoideae, Cocoeae) of about 25 accepted species from Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina, forming Pampa palm groves, with several threatened species and underutilized edible fruit.

Buting Technology (不停科技)

Buting Technology (不停科技), brand BOTINKIT, is a Chinese cooking-robotics startup founded in Shenzhen in January 2021 by Chen Rui (Shirley Chen), making AI-driven commercial kitchen automation for restaurants.