Buckner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bill Buckner, Major League Baseball player in the 1970s and 1980s
Billy Buckner, current pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks
Brentson Buckner, former National Football League player
Charles Buckner, (ca. 1735–1811) admiral in the British Royal Navy
Dave Buckner, drummer of Papa Roach
Jack Buckner, British track athlete
John Buckner, LL.D. (1734–1824), Bishop of Chichester, England
M. M. Buckner, science fiction author
Milt Buckner, (10 July 1915 – 27 July 1977), American jazz pianist and organist
Mordecai Buckner (ca. 1735–1787), American Continental Army officer
Randy Buckner, American Neuroscientist
Richard Buckner (1812–1883), English portraitist
Richard Buckner, American singer-songwriter
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Confederate general during the American Civil War
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., American general during World War II
Susan Buckner, actress who played Patty Simcox in Grease
Thomas Buckner, British track athlete
