Buzz (nickname)

Buzz is the nickname of:

• Buzz Aldrin (born 1930), American pilot and astronaut, second person to set foot on the Moon
• Herbert Altshuler, American retired major general
• Buzz Arlett (1899–1964), American baseball player
• George Beurling (1921–1948), Canadian World War II fighter pilot
• Ian Hamilton Burrows (1930–2006), New Zealand brigadier general and Commander of Land Forces New Zealand
• Steve Busby (born 1949), American baseball pitcher
• Frank Carrone (1938–1975), American mobster
• Beau Casson (born 1982), Australian former cricketer
• Charlie Eckert (1897–1986), American baseball pitcher
• Buzz Fazio (1908–1993), American bowler
• Buzz Feiten, American singer, songwriter and guitarist
• Buzz Gardner (1931–2004), American trumpeter
• Buzz Hargrove (born 1944), former national president of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union
• Buzz Kilman (born 1944), Chicago radio personality
• John McClung (1935–2004), Canadian historian, lawyer, jurist and judge
• Buzz Nutter (1931–2008), American football player
• Buzz Osborne (born 1964), guitarist/vocalist/songwriter, founding member of The Melvins
• Boyd Wagner (1918–1942), American World War II flying ace and lieutenant colonel
• Buzz Williams (born 1972), American college men's basketball head coach at Virginia Tech
• Raymond R. Wright (1945–1999), US Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient

See also

• Buzzie, another, less-common nickname