Portrait of Greg Buis

Greg Buis

The nature phone is really a way that I kind of keep in touch with the greater, um... the greater spirit out here. You get reception everywhere. Survivor 1, E4

Played on

24 days played

Game record

Vote alignment20%of 5 ballots

1st percentile of 423 castaways

Immunity record1career immunity win

77th percentile of 751 castaways

Occupation at casting Ivy League Graduate Hometown Gold Hill, Colorado

Played with 15 castaways across 1 season See every connection ↓

Greg Buis's one season ended on the jury: they went out as the 8th voted out on Survivor 1: Borneo after 24 days. Buis's torch went out by a 6-3 vote. Before that, Buis cast 5 tribal council votes in Survivor 1, 1 with the majority.

Get to know Greg Buis

Greg Buis's own answers from the pre-game cast profile CBS published before the season aired.

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Frisbee
“Everything not forbidden is compulsory.”
Greg Buis, in that same pre-game profile

Birthplace, pre-game profile and alliance facts adapted from Survivor Fandom and Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-07-21. Licensed CC BY-SA.

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Seasons

Season Result Days Tribes Votes against Confessionals
Borneo Season 1, 2000 8th voted out Pagong Rattana 6 35

The vote that sent Greg Buis home

Six of the nine ballots named Greg Buis on day 24 of Survivor 1: Borneo, a 6-3 vote.

Richard Hatch, Kelly Wiglesworth, Rudy Boesch, Susan Hawk, Sean Kenniff and Jenna Lewis-Dougherty

Greg Buis voted for Jenna Lewis-Dougherty.

Castaway network

Greg Buis’s connections

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15
castaway connections
7
tribemates
1
winner
6
returning players

Connections worth exploring

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The other 9 castaways

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Borneo Season 1, 2000 9 castaways View cast

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