- Indian religious leader: founder of Buddhism.
- any of a series of teachers in Buddhism, of whom Gautama was the last, who bring enlightenment and wisdom.
- a person who has attained full prajna, or enlightenment; Arhat.
- a person who has achieved a state of perfect enlightenment
- an image or picture of the Buddha
- ?563–483 bc, a title applied to Gautama Siddhartha, a nobleman and religious teacher of N India, regarded by his followers as the most recent rediscoverer of the path to enlightenment: the founder of Buddhism
