Rosebud Explained

Rosebud may refer to:

• Rose bud, the bud of a rose flower

Arts

• The name of Jerry Garcia's guitar from 1990 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", a song by Manic Street Preachers from their album Know Your Enemy (2022 Remastered)
• Rosebud, the attack command word for Dr. Eric Mason's Doberman Pinschers on the television crime drama season 7, episode 4 of Columbo
• Rosebud, a cheat code featured in the video game The Sims from Maxis
• The default password in the tutorial hacking mission in the video game Uplink
• 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, Warrick County, Indiana
• Rosebud, Washington County, Indiana
• 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 anus
• Rosebud pornography, a form of pornography
• 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