Buzz
Encyclopedia
People
- Buzz AldrinBuzz AldrinBuzz Aldrin is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history...
(born 1930), American pilot and astronaut, second person to set foot on the Moon - George BeurlingGeorge BeurlingGeorge Frederick "Buzz" Beurling DSO, DFC, DFM & Bar, RCAF , was the most successful Canadian fighter pilot of the Second World War....
(1921–1948), Canadian World War II fighter pilot - Buzz HargroveBuzz HargroveBasil Eldon "Buzz" Hargrove, OC is the former National President of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union...
(born 1944), National President of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union - Buzz KilmanBuzz Kilman-Radio career:He started in radio as the public service director for WBUS-FM, "The Magic Bus" in Miami Beach, Florida. Kilman remained there until station management discovered many of his late night interviews were spoofs. In 1974, he was at WSHE-FM in Ft...
, Chicago radio personality - Buzz OsborneBuzz OsborneRoger "Buzz" Osborne , also known as King Buzzo, is the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and technically the only remaining founding member of the Melvins...
(born 1964), guitarist/vocalist/songwriter, founding member of The Melvins - J. Buzz Von OrnsteinerJ. Buzz Von OrnsteinerDr. J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner aka Dr. Buzz was born in Reno, Nevada. His father was Dr.Samuel Leo Von Ornsteiner, a psychologist and his mother is Estelle Miller, a former parole officer....
(born 1967), American forensic psychologist and journalist
Fictional characters
- Buzz (mascot)Buzz (mascot)Buzz is one of the two official mascots of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Buzz is usually represented as a stylized yellowjacket with yellow-and-black fur, white wings, a yellow head, and antennae. He is almost never drawn with six legs, but rather with arms, legs, hands and feet , like a...
, mascot of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets - Buzz LightyearBuzz LightyearBuzz Lightyear is a character and the main deuteragonist of the Toy Story franchise. Buzz is a space ranger action figure and the co-leader of Andy's Room. He has also appeared in the movie Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins and the television series spin-off Buzz Lightyear of...
, from the Toy Story animated movies - Buzzbee, official mascot of the breakfast cereal Honey Nut CheeriosHoney Nut CheeriosHoney Nut Cheerios is a variation of Cheerios breakfast cereal, introduced in 1979 by the General Mills cereal company. This is the second variation from Original Cheerios, it is sweeter than the original, with a honey and almond flavor...
- Buzz, from the Donkey KongDonkey Kong (video game)is an arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981. It is an early example of the platform game genre, as the gameplay focuses on maneuvering the main character across a series of platforms while dodging and jumping over obstacles. In the game, Jumpman must rescue a damsel in distress, Lady, from a...
video game series - Buzz Buzz, from the Super Nintendo game EarthBound
- Buzz, a Neopet from an online virtual pet site
- Buzz McCallister, from the Home AloneHome AloneHome Alone is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. The film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy, who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation...
movie trilogy - Buzz Buzzard, nemesis of Woody WoodpeckerWoody WoodpeckerWoody Woodpecker is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic acorn woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures...
Music
- Buzz (band)Buzz (band)Buzz is an all-male Korean pop band.Their music largely consists of both plaintive rock-ballads such as "Coward" and moderately melodic, driving rock songs such as "Leaving on a Journey to Me"...
, a Korean pop/punk/ballad band - Da BuzzDa BuzzDa Buzz is a Swedish eurodance/pop music group. Members of the group are writers/producers Per Lidén and Pier Schmid and lead-singer Annika Thörnquist.All three are from Karlstad....
, a Swedish pop music group - Buzz (Steps album), a 2000 album by British pop group Steps
- Buzz (Keller Williams album)Buzz (Keller Williams album)Buzz is the second album by Keller Williams, released in 1996. It covers many genres of music such as world beat, reggae, bluegrass and rock.-Track listing:# Sunny Rain 4:07# Sally Sullivan 5:01# Relaxation Station 4:06# Fuel For The Road 4:49...
, a 1996 album - Buzz (Guardian album)Buzz (Guardian album)Buzz is one of the albums from Christian rock band Guardian. The album was released in October 1995 and was produced by Steve Taylor. The album takes the band into the realms of alternative music and grunge common of the 90s....
, a 1995 album from Christian rock band Guardian
Entertainment
- Buzz (DC Thomson), a British comic that ran in the 1970s
- Buzz (TV series)Buzz (TV series)The Buzz was a Canadian comedy television series that aired on The Comedy Network. The show was hosted by Morgan "Mista Mo" Smith and Daryn Jones. The show originally aired in the mid-90's as a community channel show on Rogers Television before finally getting a network deal in 2000...
, a Canadian comedy television series - Buzz (film)Buzz (film)Buzz is a 1998 Israeli film directed by Eli Cohen, based on a real murder story. It is known for being frequently used and taught in the Israeli education system, as well as the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Prison Service.-Plot:...
, a 1998 Israeli film by Eli Cohen - Buzz!Buzz!Buzz! is a series of video games originated by Sleepydog Ltd., developed by Relentless Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles. They are quiz games that see the players answering trivia questions while...
, a series of quiz video games
Technology
- Jeskola BuzzJeskola BuzzJeskola Buzz is a freeware modular software music studio environment designed to run on Microsoft Windows via Microsoft .NET. It is centered around a modular plugin-based machine view and a multiple pattern sequencer tracker .Buzz consists of a plugin architecture that allows the audio to be routed...
, a modular software music studio environment - AeroelasticityAeroelasticityAeroelasticity is the science which studies the interactions among inertial, elastic, and aerodynamic forces. It was defined by Arthur Collar in 1947 as "the study of the mutual interaction that takes place within the triangle of the inertial, elastic, and aerodynamic forces acting on structural...
or flutter - Buzz!Buzz!Buzz! is a series of video games originated by Sleepydog Ltd., developed by Relentless Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles. They are quiz games that see the players answering trivia questions while...
, a series of quiz video games - Yahoo! BuzzYahoo! BuzzYahoo! Buzz was a community-based news article website, heavily derived from Digg, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control...
, a community launched by Yahoo! that publishes user-posted news stories - Google BuzzGoogle BuzzGoogle Buzz is a social networking, microblogging and messaging tool from Google integrated into the company's web-based email program, Gmail. Users can share links, photos, videos, status messages and comments organized in "conversations" and visible in the user's inbox. On October 14, 2011,...
, a social update mechanism integrated into various Google products
Other uses
- Buzz (airline)Buzz (airline)Buzz was a British low-cost airline operating services within Europe. It operated from 2000 until 2004 as a subsidiary of KLM and then Ryanair.- History :The airline was established in 1999 and started operations on January 4, 2000...
, a discount airline formerly operating in Europe - Buzz cutBuzz cutA buzz cut, induction cut or wiffle is a very short haircut.The cut is usually performed using hair clippers without a comb guard. The sides are cut closely and then the top is either shaped or cut to the same short length all over. The cut takes just a few minutes to perform. A buzz cut can...
, American name for a type of haircut in which the hair is sheared very closely to the scalp - Buzz numberBuzz numberA buzz number was a large letter and number combination applied to United States Air Force military aircraft in the years immediately after World War II, through the early 1960s...
, letter and number combination applied to U.S. Air Force aircraft after World War II - Buzz (dinghy)Buzz (dinghy)The Buzz is a sailing dinghy designed in 1994 by Ian Howlett and manufactured by Reg White Limited of Brightlingsea as part of the "White Formula" range of boats marketed by Topper International Ltd. The Buzz is a double handed racing boat, with a single trapeze for the crewman. The boat has a...
, a sailing dinghy - Salt Lake Buzz, former name of the Salt Lake BeesSalt Lake BeesThe Salt Lake Bees are a Pacific Coast League minor league baseball team based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Bees serve as the Triple-A affiliate of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. They play their home games at Spring Mobile Ballpark, known to fans as the Apiary, which was...
minor league baseball team - Marketing buzzMarketing buzzMarketing buzz or simply buzz — a term used in word-of-mouth marketing — is the interaction of consumers and users of a product or service which serves to amplify the original marketing message. a vague but positive association, excitement, or anticipation about a product or service...
, a term used in word of mouth marketing - Buzz Cola, a fictional cola drink on The SimpsonsThe SimpsonsThe Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
See also
- Bzzz!Bzzz!Bzzz! is a relationship game show that first aired in limited syndication from January 22 to March 8, 1996. Following this trial run, it later expanded to full national syndication, airing from September 9, 1996 to September 5, 1997, with reruns continuing on some stations until 2001...
, a relationship TV game show that aired from 1996 to 1998 - The Buzz (disambiguation)
- Buzzkill (disambiguation)
- Buzzer (disambiguation)Buzzer (disambiguation)A buzzer is a signalling device.Buzzer or The Buzzer may also refer to:*Buzzer , an ancient mechanical device used for ceremonial purposes and as a toy*Buzzer , a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe...