Bougainville

Bougainville may refer to:

Places

 * Autonomous Region of Bougainville, historically known as the North Solomons,
 * Bougainville Island, the main island of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea
 * Bougainville campaign, World War II
 * Bougainville, Somme, a commune in Somme département, France
 * Bougainville Strait, a strait which separates Choiseul Island (Solomon Islands) from Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea)
 * Cape Bougainville, East Falkland, Falkland Islands, Falklands (United Kingdom); a cape
 * Isla Bougainville, the Spanish name for Lively Island in the Falkland Islands

People

 * Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), French navigator, explorer, and military commander
 * Hyacinthe de Bougainville (1781–1846), French naval officer and son of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
 * Jean-Pierre de Bougainville (1722-1763), French writer, member of the Académie française, brother to Louis Antoine de Bougainville

Ships

 * French ship Bougainville, various French ships named in honour of Louis Antoine de Bougainville
 * Bougainville-class aviso, a group of colonial avisos, or sloops, built for the French Navy during the 1930s
 * USS Bougainville (CVE-100), later CVU-100, a United States Navy Casablanca-class escort aircraft carrier
 * CMA CGM Bougainville, a motor vessel, container ship of the French company CMA CGM, flagged by France

Literature and film

 * Bougainville – Our Island Our Fight, a documentary film directed by Wayne Coles-Janess
 * Bougainville (novel), a 1981 novel by Dutch author F. Springer
 * The Tetherballs of Bougainville, a 1998 novel by American author Mark Leyner

Other uses

 * Comte de Bougainville (Count of Bougainville), a French title of nobility held by Louis Antoine de Bougainville
 * Bougainville Park, Papeete, French Polynesia (France); a park in Papeete