Budd (given name)

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 (1932–2022), founder and original proprietor and MC of the Improvisation Comedy Club
• Budd Grossman (born 1924), American producer and screenwriter
• Budd Hopkins (1931–2011), central figure in abduction phenomenon and related UFO research
• Budd Johnson (1910–1984), jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
• Budd Lynch (1917–2012), 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