Buddy
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Buddy may refer to:
- A friend
- 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
- Buddy (novel), a novel by Nigel Hinton
- "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 is the name of:
As a given name or nickname:
- Buddy Bell, American baseball player
- Buddy DeFranco, American jazz clarinetist
- Buddy Ebsen, American actor best known for his role in The Beverly Hillbillies
- 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
- "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers, American professional wrestler
As a nickname:
- Vincent Cianci, long-time mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
- Lance Franklin, Australian Rules Football player
- Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American actor and jazz musician
As the name of fictional characters:
- Buddy (Elf), 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!
- Little Buddy, The Skipper's pet name for Gilligan on the TV series Gilligan's Island