title: Budrys
text: # Budrys
  
  Budrys is a Lithuanian surname. It evolved from the ancient Lithuanian personal name Budrys. The patronymic surname Budraitis is derived from this given name.
  
  Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Algirdas Budrys (born 1939), Lithuanian musician
  * Algis Budrys (1931–2008), Lithuanian-American writer
  * Dainius Budrys [lt] (born 1976), Lithuanian economist, politician, MP
  * Daiva Tamošiūnaitė-Budrė [lt] (born 1966), Lithuanian radio, TV show and event host and presenter, and politician
  * Eugenijus Mindaugas Budrys (1925–2007), Lithuanian painter
  * Ignas Budrys (1933–1999), Lithuanian painter
  * Jonas Budrys (1889–1964), counterintelligence officer and later a Lithuanian diplomat
  * Povilas Budrys (born 1962), Lithuanian actor and artist
  * Viktorija Budrytė-Winnersjo (born 1989), Lithuanian footballer
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Budrys, from Adam Mickiewicz's poem The Three Budrys, who lent his name to a jocular Polish term for "Lithuanian person"
  