Buford may refer to:

Places

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) Buford School Building, which is located on Arkansas Highway 126, ...

Buford, Colorado Buford is an unincorporated community in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, United States. History A post office called Buford was in operation from 1890 until 1961. The community was named after John Buford John Buford, Jr. (March 4, 1826 – De ...

, an unincorporated community * Buford, Georgia * Buford Highway corridor, in Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett Counties in Georgia * Buford, North Dakota *

Buford, Ohio Buford is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in central Clay Township, Highland County, Ohio, United States. The population was 352 at the 2010 census. it once had a post office, with the ZIP code 45110. The current ZIP co ...

Buford, South Carolina Buford is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lancaster County, South Carolina, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 398. It lies at the intersection of South Carolina ...

* Buford, Texas (disambiguation) (two places) *

Buford, Virginia Buford is an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is mentioned in the Beale ciphers The Beale ciphers are a set of three ciphertexts, one of which allegedly states the location of a buried treasure of ...

Buford, Wyoming Buford is an unincorporated 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. Location Buf ...

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 Surrendere ...

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 Statist ...

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 Bu ...

Buford Abner James Buford Abner (November 10, 1917 – November 19, 2011) was an American songwriter, musician and singer who worked during the early days of country music, working in both secular and gospel country music genres. With his brother Merle Abner, ...

, American songwriter * Buford Allison, 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 p ...

, 42nd governor of Tennessee * Buford F. Gordon, African American civil rights activist, clergyman and social scientist *

Buford A. Johnson Master Sergeant Buford A. Johnson (August 30, 1927 – April 15, 2017) was a member of the famed group of African-American World War II pilots and support personnel known as the Tuskegee Airmen. During World War II, he served as the chief mechan ...

, member of the Tuskegee Airmen *

Buford Jordan Paul Buford Jordan (born June 26, 1962) is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the New Orleans Saints. Biography A four-time all-Southland Conference selection, Jordan left McNeese State ...

, 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, 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 the ...

, 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 Paul Buford Price (1932 – 2021), usually known as P. Buford Price, was a professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences. His ...

, 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. Pusser is known for his virtual one-man war on moonshining, prostituti ...

, 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, a ...

, 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

Other

*'' Buford v. United States'', 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 co ...

*Buford Van Stomm, one of the supporting characters on Disney's Phineas and Ferb *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 Gaia (Roman name Terra). In the fourth book of the series, ...

'' series *Buford Tannen, the antagonist of ''