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United States

Buford, Arkansas Buford is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Baxter County, Arkansas, Baxter County, Arkansas, United States. It is the location of (or is the nearest community to) the Buford School Building, which is located on Arkansas Highway ...

* Buford, Colorado, an unincorporated community *

Buford, Georgia Buford is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, Gwinnett and Hall County, Georgia, Hall counties in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,144. Most of th ...

Buford Dam Buford Dam is a dam in Buford, Georgia which is located at the southern end of Lake Lanier, a reservoir formed by the construction of the dam in 1956. The dam itself is managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The dam is made of e ...

, infrastructure in Georgia *

Buford Highway Buford Highway (also Buford Highway Corridor), a.k.a. the DeKalb International Corridor, and in the 1990–2000's as the DeKalb County International Village district, is a community northeast of the city of Atlanta, celebrated for its ethnic div ...

community, in Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett Counties in Georgia *

Buford, North Dakota Buford is an unincorporated community in Williams County, North Dakota, United States. It is the nearest community to the Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site. It is named for the nearby historic Fort Buford at the confluence of the Mis ...

Buford, Ohio Buford is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community and census-designated place in central Clay Township, Highland County, Ohio, Clay Township, Highland County, Ohio, Highland County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3 ...

* Buford, South Carolina * Buford, Mitchell County, Texas * Buford, Virginia *

Buford, Wyoming Buford is an unincorporated community and ghost town in Albany County, Wyoming, United States. It is located between Laramie and Cheyenne on Interstate 80. Its last resident, who had been the lone resident for nearly two decades, left in 2012. A ...

Fort Buford Fort Buford was a United States Army Post at the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers in Dakota Territory, present day North Dakota, and the site of Sitting Bull's surrender in 1881.Ewers, John C. (1988): "When Sitting Bull Surrende ...

Buford Tower Buford Tower (formerly the Austin Fire Drill Tower) is a tower standing along the north shore of Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin, Texas. The structure was originally built in 1930 as a drill tower for the Austin Fire Department, but it now serve ...

in Austin, Texas

Canada

Buford, Alberta Buford is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within Leduc County. It is located south of Highway 39, west of Leduc. The hamlet takes its name from Buford, North Dakota. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statisti ...

People

Buford (surname) Buford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Abraham Buford (1747–1833), commanding officer during the "Waxhaw Massacre" * Abraham Buford II (1820–1884), Confederate general during the American Civil War * Algernon Sidney Buf ...

* Buford Abner, American songwriter *

Buford Allison Buford Needham "Butch" Allison (October 29, 1944 – April 2, 2010) was an American professional football player who was an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Colts and New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) and the Edmonton ...

, professional football player *

Buford Ellington Earl Buford Ellington (June 27, 1907 – April 3, 1972) was an American politician who served as the 42nd governor of Tennessee from 1959 to 1963, and again from 1967 to 1971. Along with his political ally, Frank G. Clement, he helped lead a ...

, 42nd governor of Tennessee *

Buford F. Gordon Buford F. Gordon (August 21, 1893 – 1952) was an African American civil rights activist, clergyman and social scientist. A master of divinity from the University of Chicago, Buford F. Gordon first was a pastor at the African Methodist Episcop ...

, African American civil rights activist, clergyman and social scientist * Buford A. Johnson, member of the Tuskegee Airmen * Buford Jordan, professional football player *

Buford Long Buford Eugene Long (December 14, 1931 – September 1, 2006) was an American college and professional football player who was a defensive back, halfback and end in the National Football League (NFL) for three seasons during the 1950s. Long pla ...

, professional football player *

Buford McGee Buford Lamar McGee (born August 16, 1960) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ole Miss Rebels. He played nine seasons in the NFL fo ...

, professional football player *

Buford Meredith Buford "Geechie" Meredith (October 22, 1899 – January 13, 1932) was an American baseball infielder in the Negro leagues. He played from 1920 to 1931, playing mostly with the Birmingham Black Barons. He also played with the Memphis Red Sox and th ...

, American baseball player for the Negro leagues *

Buford Nunley Buford B. Nunley (February 5, 1912 – December 5, 1979) was an American Negro league first baseman in the 1930s. A native of Des Arc, Arkansas, Nunley played for the Little Rock Grays in 1932. In five recorded games, he posted three hits in 15 ...

, American baseball player for the Negro leagues * P. Buford Price, American professor *

Buford Pusser Buford Hayse Pusser (December 12, 1937 – August 21, 1974) was the sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee from 1964 to 1970 and constable of Adamsville from 1970 to 1972. He is known for his virtual one-man war on moonshining, prostitution, ga ...

, Tennessee sheriff whose life was made into a series of movies *

Buford Ray Buford Garfield "Baby" Ray (September 30, 1914 – January 21, 1986) was an American football player who played 11 seasons in the National Football League for the Green Bay Packers from 1938 to 1948. Early life Ray was born in Una, Tennessee, ...

, professional football player *

Buford John Schramm Buford John Schramm (14 October 1938 – 28 April 2004), better-known as B.J. Schramm, was a businessman and developer of light personal helicopters. He was killed in the crash of a single-seat helicopter of his own design near Montour, about s ...

, businessman and light helicopter developer

Ship

* USAT ''Buford'', a ship used to deport aliens from the U.S. in 1919

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Buford v. United States Buford may refer to: Places United States *Buford, Arkansas * Buford, Colorado, an unincorporated community *Buford, Georgia *Buford Dam, infrastructure in Georgia *Buford Highway community, in Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett Counties in Georgia * B ...

'', a 2001 Supreme Court case * Buford T. Justice, fictional character played by Jackie Gleason in the ''Smokey and the Bandit'' films *Buford, a pink dog from the cartoon show

Buford and the Galloping Ghost ''Buford and the Galloping Ghost'' is an American animated television series and a spin-off of '' Yogi's Space Race'' produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that was broadcast on NBC from September 9 to December 2, 1978. The half-hour series was ...

*Buford Van Stomm, one of the supporting characters on Disney's

Phineas and Ferb ''Phineas and Ferb'' is an American animated series, animated Musical film, musical-television comedy, comedy television series created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh for Disney Channel and Disney XD. The series originally aired on t ...

*Buford, the name of Leo Valdez's walking table in Rick Riordan's ''

Heroes of Olympus ''The Heroes of Olympus'' is a pentalogy of fantasy-adventure novels written by American author Rick Riordan. The novels detail a conflict between Greek demigods, Roman demigods, and Gaea. In the fourth book of the series, there is also a fig ...

'' series *Buford Tannen, the antagonist of '' Back to the Future Part III''

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