A butler is a domestic worker, generally in a large household and usually the senior male servant.

Butler or Butlers may also refer to:

People and fictional characters

  • Butler (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters
  • Butler (given name), a list of people
  • Buttlar (noble family), also spelled Butler, an old German noble family
  • Butler dynasty, a noble family prominent for several centuries in Ireland

Places

Antarctica

  • Butler Glacier
  • Butler Island (Antarctica)
  • Butler Nunataks
  • Butler Passage
  • Butler Peaks
  • Butler Rocks
  • Butler Summit

Australia

  • Butler, South Australia
  • Butler, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth

Canada

  • Butler, Manitoba
  • Butler Range (Canada), a mountain range in British Columbia

New Zealand

  • Butler Range (Canterbury), South Island
  • Butler Range (West Coast), South Island
  • Butler River

United States

  • Butler, Alabama, a town
  • New Kingman-Butler, Arizona, an unincorporated community and census-designated place commonly called Butler
  • Butler, Georgia, a city
  • Butler, Illinois, a village
  • Butler, Indiana, a city
  • Butler, Kentucky, a home rule-class city
  • Butler, Maryland, an unincorporated community
  • Butler, Missouri, a city
  • Butler, New Jersey, a borough
  • Butler, New York, a town
  • Butler, Ohio, a village
  • Butler, Oklahoma, a town in Custer County
  • Butler, Delaware County, Oklahoma, a census-designated place
  • Butler, Pennsylvania, a city
  • Butler, South Dakota, a town
  • Butler, Tennessee, an unincorporated community
  • Butler, Bastrop County, Texas, an unincorporated community
  • Butler, Freestone County, Texas, an unincorporated community
  • Butler, Clark County, Wisconsin, a town
  • Butler, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, a village
  • Atwood, Nevada, also known as Butler
  • Butler Brook, New York
  • Butler Canyon, Arizona
  • Butler County (disambiguation)
  • Butler Creek (disambiguation)
  • Butler Farm, Swedesboro, New Jersey, on the National Register of Historic Places
  • Butler Reservoir, New Jersey
  • Butler Township (disambiguation)
  • Butler Valley (Arizona)
  • Camp Butler, original name of Camp Misery, an American Civil War Union Army camp
  • Fort Butler (disambiguation)
  • Lake Butler (disambiguation)

Outer space

  • 13543 Butler, an asteroid

Companies

  • Butler Air Transport, a defunct Australian company
  • Butler Amusements, an entertainment company
  • Butler Hotel, Seattle, Washington
  • Butler International, a defunct engineering services firm based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  • Butlers (company) (BUTLERS GmbH & Co KG), a German retail chain
  • Butlers Chocolates, an Irish-owned manufacturer of luxury chocolate and chocolate products

Films

  • The Butler, a 1913 American film produced by the Foster Photoplay Company
  • The Butler (1916 film), an American comedy
  • The Butler, a 2013 American film

Schools

  • Butler University, a liberal arts university in Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Butler College, one of the six residential colleges of Princeton University
  • Butler College (Texas), a former coeducational black school in Tyler, Texas
  • Butler Community College, El Dorado, Kansas
  • Butler College (Perth), a public high school in Perth, Australia
  • Butler High School (disambiguation)
  • Butler Elementary School (disambiguation)
  • Butler School (disambiguation)

Sports

  • Butler Bucks, a minor league baseball team based in Butler, Pennsylvania, from 1905 until 1908
  • Butler Bulldogs, the sports teams of Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Butler Grizzlies, the sports teams of Butler Community College, El Dorado, Kansas
  • Butler Tigers, a baseball team based in Butler, Pennsylvania, from 1935 to 1951
  • Butler (basketball), a 1906–07 Central Basketball League team in Butler, Ohio
  • Butler National Golf Club, a private golf club in Oak Brook, Illinois

Titles

  • Baron Butler, a title created twice, once in the Peerage of Ireland and once in the Peerage of England
  • Butler baronets, two baronetcies in the Baronetage of Ireland and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Transportation

  • Butler railway station, in Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  • Butler station (MBTA), in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Butler station (New Jersey), in Morris County, New Jersey, United States
  • Butler Blackhawk, a 1928 American biplane
  • Butler Petrol Cycle, considered by many to be the first British car

Other uses

  • , a World War II United States Navy destroyer
  • Butler Medal, a military decoration of the United States Army issued in 1865 to African Americans
  • Butler (software), automating application for Mac OS X
  • Butler Act, a 1925 Tennessee law prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of man's origin
  • Butler Block, a building in Uxbridge, Massachusetts
  • Butler group, in mathematics
  • Butler Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
  • Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, a museum
  • Butler Library, Columbia University
  • Butler matrix, a beamforming network used to feed a phased array of antenna elements
  • Butler oscillator
  • Butler Review, a 2004 British report about the intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
  • Butlers: Chitose Momotose Monogatari, a Japanese anime television series
  • "The Butler", a short story written by Roald Dahl in the collection The Great Automatic Grammatizator

See also

  • Pagan the Butler (died c. 1149), lord of Oultrejordain in the Kingdom of Jerusalem
  • Lucan the Butler, in Arthurian legend King Arthur's servant
  • Battler (disambiguation)
  • Butler House (disambiguation), various buildings