Bison (disambiguation)

Bison is a taxonomic group containing six species of large even-toed ungulates, among them the extant American bison and European bison (the wisent).

Bison or Bisons may also refer to:

Places in the United States

 * Bison, Kansas, a city
 * Bison, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
 * Bison, South Dakota, a town
 * Bison, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
 * Bison Township, Perkins County, South Dakota, a township

Surname

 * Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (1762–1844), Italian painter

Nickname or stage name

 * Béla I of Hungary (1016–1063), King of Hungary nicknamed "the Bison"
 * Bison Dele (1969–2002, né Brian Carson Williams; presumed dead 2002), American professional basketball player
 * Matt Kemp (born 1984), American baseball player nicknamed "The Bison"
 * Bison Smith (1973–2011, né Mark Smith), American professional wrestler

Fictional entities

 * Bison (comics), a Marvel comic book supervillain
 * Balrog (Street Fighter), known as Mike Bison or M. Bison in Japan, a character in Street Fighter series of video games by Capcom
 * M. Bison, the main antagonist in Street Fighter franchise, known as Vega in Japan, designed by Akiman

Music

 * Bison (metal band) (also known as Bison B.C.), from Vancouver, Canada
 * Bison (indie folk band), from Chesapeake, Virginia, US
 * "Bison" (song), by The Fireman

Other media

 * Bison (novel), a 2014 novel by Patrick Grainville
 * Bison (sculpture), a c. 1960 work by an unknown artist in Eugene, Oregon, US
 * Bison (Siemering), a 1902 work by Rudolf Siemering in Berlin, Germany
 * Bison Radio Network, which broadcasts North Dakota State Bison athletics
 * Bison (2014 film), a Canadian short film
 * Bison (upcoming film), an upcoming Indian Tamil-language biographical sports drama film

Businesses

 * BISON, a collaboration between a group of computer companies (Bull, ICL, Siemens, Olivetti, and Nixdorf) that subsequently became X/Open
 * Bison Transport, a Canadian transportation and warehousing
 * Bison Radio Network, which broadcasts North Dakota State Bison athletics
 * Bison Company, Bison Life Motion Pictures, or Bison 101 Company, an early 20th century film studio that became part of Universal Studios
 * The Bison industrialised building system is a precast concrete building system used in high rise flats, developed by Bison Manufacturing Ltd, Dartford, Kent which had been founded in 1919 to build military pill-boxes.

Military

 * 15 cm sIG 33 (Sf) auf Panzerkampfwagen I Ausf B, sometimes called the Sturmpanzer I Bison, a German self-propelled heavy infantry gun of World War II
 * 15 cm sIG 33 auf Fahrgestell Panzerkampfwagen II (Sf), sometimes called the Sturmpanzer II Bison, a German self-propelled heavy infantry gun of World War II
 * Avro Bison, a biplane spotter aircraft
 * Bison (armoured personnel carrier), a Canadian fighting vehicle of the Mowag Piranha family
 * Bison concrete armoured lorry, a British improvised mobile pillbox of 1940
 * Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Bison, an upgrade variant of the MiG-21bis fighter jet for the Indian Air Force
 * Myasishchev M-4, a Soviet Cold War-era strategic bomber, NATO reporting name Bison
 * Operation Bison (Jammu & Kashmir 1948), an Indian Army assault in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
 * Opération Bison, the French military operation in Chad in 1969–1972
 * PP-19 Bizon or bison, a Russian submachine gun
 * Bison, a French Guépard-class destroyer sunk in 1940 during the Norwegian campaign

Professional

 * Basingstoke Bison, an ice hockey club from the United Kingdom
 * Bisons de Neuilly-sur-Marne, a French ice hockey team based in Neuilly-sur-Marne
 * Boulder Junior Bison, a junior A ice hockey team in Boulder County, Colorado
 * Bristol Bisons RFC, an English rugby union team
 * Buffalo Bisons (disambiguation), numerous Buffalo, New York, teams (baseball, basketball, football and hockey)
 * Granby Bisons, a junior ice hockey team in Granby, Quebec, Canada, since renamed
 * Kentucky Bisons, an American Basketball Association * Boulder Junior Bison, a junior A ice hockey team in Boulder County, Colorado
 * Loimaa Bisons, a Finnish basketball team in Loimaa, Finland
 * Okotoks Bisons, a junior B ice hockey team in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada
 * Wainwright Bisons, a junior B ice hockey team in Wainwright, Alberta
 * Bisons, a former name of the Mid-Missouri Mavericks, a defunct minor league baseball team

Collegiate

 * Bucknell Bison, the NCAA Division I athletic teams of Bucknell University
 * Howard Bison and Lady Bison, the NCAA Division I teams of Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia
 * North Dakota State Bison, the NCAA Division I teams of North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota
 * Bison Sports Arena
 * Bisons, the teams of Gallaudet University, District of * Howard Bison and Lady Bison, the NCAA Division I teams of Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia
 * Bisons, the Division II teams of Harding University, Arkansas
 * Bisons, the NCAA Division I teams of Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee
 * Bisons, the Division III teams of Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts
 * Bisons, the NAIA teams of Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma
 * Manitoba Bisons, the athletic teams of the University of Manitoba, Canada

Technology

 * GNU bison, a parser generator that is part of the GNU project
 * Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON)

Vehicles

 * Chevrolet Bison, heavy duty trucks manufactured between 1977 and 1988
 * Cosmos Bison, ultralight aircraft