Rosebud may refer to:

  • Rose bud, the bud of a rose flower

Arts

  • The name of Jerry Garcia's guitar from 1979 until his death in 1995
  • In the 1941 film Citizen Kane, the last words of Charles Foster Kane and an overall plot device
  • "Rosebud" (The Simpsons), an episode of the television comedy The Simpsons, parodying Citizen Kane
  • Rosebud (band), a folk-rock band circa 1970, featuring Judy Henske and Jerry Yester
  • Rosebud (Fabergé egg)
  • Rosebud (1975 film), an American film
  • Rosebud (2019 film), a South Korean film
  • The Rosebuds, an indie-rock band
  • "Rosebud", a song by Ryan Adams from the album Cold Roses
  • "Rosebud", a song by Sparks from their 1986 album Music That You Can Dance To
  • "Rosebud" (song), a song by Manic Street Preachers
  • Rosebud, a Splicer model in the video game BioShock
  • Rosebud the Basselope, a character in the comic strip Bloom County

Places

Australia

  • Rosebud, Victoria, Australia

Canada

  • Rosebud, Alberta, Canada
  • Rosebud River, Canada

United States

  • Rosebud Indian Reservation, a Sioux reservation in South Dakota, U.S.
  • Battle of the Rosebud, a battle on June 17, 1876 between the Lakota (Sioux) and Cheyenne Indian tribes and the U.S. and their Indian allies, the Shoshone and Crow tribes
  • Rose Bud, Arkansas
  • Rosebud, Alabama
  • Rosebud, Georgia
  • Rosebud, Missouri
  • Rosebud, Montana
  • Rosebud, North Carolina
  • Rosebud, South Dakota
  • Rosebud, Texas
  • Rosebud County, Montana

People

  • Sasha Obama, daughter of U.S. President Barack Obama, by U.S. Secret Service codename
  • Rosebud Denovo (died 1992), street activist killed by police in Berkeley, California, U.S.
  • Rosebud the Basselope, a character in the comic strip Bloom County

Other uses

  • PZ 87 The Rosebud, the fishing vessel that sailed to London in 1937 to protest the Newlyn Clearances
  • The Rosebud (diner), a diner in Somerville, Massachusetts
  • Rosebud Formation, a geological unit in Nebraska and South Dakota
  • Rosebud (Schooner) that ran aground in Port Phillip Bay
  • Rosebud, a euphemism for small buttplug with sparkling jewelry at bottom
  • Rose-bud torch, a type of oxy-gas torch; see oxy-fuel welding and cutting
  • Rosebud Releasing Corporation, a former American studio company that produced Evil Dead II