What is "budd"

Budd may refer to:

Budd is the first release by the Chicago noise rock band Rapeman. The first three songs on the EP were recorded live. The title is a reference to Budd Dwyer, a politician who committed suicide during a televised press conference. The lyrics of the title track contain references to phrases used during the incident.

It has been re-released as bonus tracks at the end of Two Nuns and a Pack Mule, the band's only LP.

Studio versions of the first three tracks were originally planned to be used, but the band later decided in favour of live versions. The demo tracks are currently available in trading circles.

Budd is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Budd Boetticher (1916–2001), film director during the classical period in Hollywood
• Budd Dwyer (1939–1987), American politician who committed suicide during a televised press conference
• Budd Friedman (born 1932), founder and original proprietor and MC of the Improvisation Comedy Club
• Budd Hopkins (born 1931), central figure in abduction phenomenon and related UFO research
• Budd Johnson (1910–1984), jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
• Budd Lynch (born 1917), Detroit Red Wings' public address announcer at Joe Louis Arena
• Budd Root (born 1958), American cartoonist, and creator of the independent comic book Cavewoman
• Budd Schulberg (1914–2009), American screenwriter, novelist and sports writer

Fictional characters:

• Budd, from the two-part film Kill Bill

Budd is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alan Budd (born 1937), British economist
• Barbara Budd (born 1953), Canadian actress
• Brian Budd (born 1952), Canadian professional soccer player
• Bryan Budd (19772006), British soldier posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross
• Christopher Budd (mathematician) (born 1960), British mathematician
• Christopher Budd (cricketer) (born 1978), English cricketer
• Christopher Budd (bishop) (born 1937), British Roman Catholic prelate
• Dave Budd (born 1938), American basketball player
• Edward G. Budd (18701946), American inventor and businessman
• Eric Budd (19242006), English cricket administrator
• Frank Budd (born 1939), American football player
• Harold Budd (born 1936), American ambient/avant-garde composer
• Herbert Ashwin Budd (1881–1950), British painter
• James Budd (18511908), American lawyer and Democratic politician
• Ralph Budd (18791962), American railroad executive
• Roy Budd (194793), British jazz musician and film composer
• Sibylla Budd (born before 1999), Australian actress
• Timothy Budd (born before 1976), American professor of computer science
• Wayne Budd (born 1941), American executive and attorney
• Zola Budd (born 1966), South African-born British track and field athlete who competed in the Summer Olympic Games

• Title character of Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd, first published 1924