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United States

Buford, Arkansas Buford is an unincorporated community in Baxter County, Arkansas, United States. It is the location of (or is the nearest community to) Buford School Building, which is located on AR 126 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...

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 – Dec ...

, an unincorporated community *

Buford, Georgia Buford is a city in Gwinnett and Hall counties in the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,144. Most of the city is in Gwinnett County, which is part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta Metropolitan S ...

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 diver ...

corridor, 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 Miss ...

Buford, Ohio Buford is an 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 352 at the 2010 United States Census, ...

* Buford, South Carolina *

Buford, Texas (disambiguation) Buford is the name of a number of places in the State of Texas in the United States of America: * Buford, El Paso County, Texas * Buford, Mitchell County, Texas {{Geodis ...

(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 o ...

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 Bufor ...

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 Surrend ...

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 Buf ...

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

, 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 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 ...

, 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 p ...

, professional football player *

Buford McGee Buford Lamar McGee (born August 16, 1960) is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played nine seasons for the San Diego Chargers (1984–1986), the Los Angeles Rams (1987–1991) and the G ...

, 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 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 National Academy of Sciences. His work had been wide-ranging over his career, ...

, 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, prostitu ...

, 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

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Buford v. United States ''Buford v. United States'', 532 U.S. 59 (2001), was a United States Supreme Court case decided in 2001. The case concerned whether federal appellate courts should give deferential or de novo review of certain Sentencing Guideline determinations ...

'', a 2001 Supreme Court case *

Buford T. Justice Sheriff Buford T. Justice AKA Smokey Bear is a fictional character played by Jackie Gleason in the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy. He is a determined, foul-mouthed Texas sheriff, from the real Montague County or the fictional Portague County at vari ...

, 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 musical-comedy television series created by Dan Povenmire and Jeff "Swampy" Marsh for Disney Channel and Disney XD. Produced by Disney Television Animation, the series was originally broadcast a ...

*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 ''

Back to the Future Part III ''Back to the Future Part III'' is a 1990 American science fiction Western film and the final installment of the ''Back to the Future'' trilogy. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, and stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary St ...

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