Trivia

Last name is pronounced "boot-edge-edge." It is the designation for "poultry" in Maltese, a Semitic language.

He was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana from January 1, 2012 until January 1, 2020.

Announced his candidacy for the 2020 US presidential election in January 2019. He is the first openly gay Democratic presidential candidate.

Came out as gay in an essay published in the South Bend Tribune in June 2015.

Served seven months in Afghanistan in the Navy Reserves while also serving as mayor of South Bend.

Met his eventual husband Chasten on the dating app Hinge.

Son of Jennifer Ann (Montgomery), a professor, and Joseph Anthony Buttigieg II, a literary scholar, professor, and translator. His father was an emigrant from Hamrun, Malta. His mother, whose family is from Indiana and Oklahoma, is of English, Scottish, German, and more distant Swiss-German, Welsh, and Cornish, descent.

Spent several months working on Senator John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, where he specialized in policy.

His father passed away eight days after his 37th birthday.

In November 2016, President Barack Obama included him on a short list of gifted, rising Democrats.

Taught himself Norwegian in order to read Erlend Loe's "Naïve. Super" in its original language. Later started periodically attending a Norwegian church in Chicago to keep up.

Plays the piano.

He became the first openly gay person to win a presidential nominating contest, as well as the first to win delegates, when he won the Iowa Democratic caucuses in 2020.

Said to bear a resemblance to Logan Lerman, and also to fictional character Alfred E. Neuman.

Portrayed by Colin Jost on Saturday Night Live (1975). Jost and Buttigieg attended Harvard at the same time and lived in the same dormitory at one point, though they had never spoken directly until Buttigieg interviewed Jost for his podcast in 2020.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation (2021 - present).