Branch (disambiguation)

A branch is a part of a woody plant.

Branch or branches may also refer to:

Australia

 * The Branch River, New South Wales

Canada

 * Branch, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town

France

 * Branches, Yonne, a commune

New Zealand

 * Branch River (Taylor River tributary)
 * Branch River (Wairau River tributary)

United States

 * Branch, Arkansas, a city
 * Branch, Louisiana, an unincorporated community and census-designated place
 * Branch, Michigan, an unincorporated community
 * Branch, Missouri, an unincorporated community
 * Branch, Texas, an unincorporated community
 * Branch, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
 * Branch, Branch County, Michigan, a former village and first seat of the county
 * Branch County, Michigan
 * Branch Township (disambiguation)
 * Fort Branch, North Carolina, a Confederate fort in the American Civil War
 * Branch River (New Hampshire)
 * The Branch, also known as Branch River, New Hampshire
 * Branch River (Rhode Island)
 * Branch River (Wisconsin)

People

 * Branch (surname), a list of people with the name
 * Branch (given name), a list of people with the name
 * Branch McCracken (1908–1970), American college basketball player and coach nicknamed "Branch"

Arts and entertainment

 * Branch Connally, a main character in the Longmire television series
 * Branch, a troll in the 2016 film Trolls
 * Arthur Branch, a fictional district attorney in the Law & Order franchise
 * Branches (novel), a 2000 novel-in-verse by American author Mitch Cullin
 * The Branches, a 2010 EP by The Dear Hunter

Companies and organizations

 * Branch office, business organization that, unlike a subsidiary, does not constitute a separate legal entity even if physically separated from the organization's main office
 * Branch (banking), a retail location
 * Branch, a local union, in the trade union movement
 * Military branch, a component of the armed forces, such as the army, navy, or air force

Mathematics

 * Branches of mathematics, subdisciplines within mathematics
 * Branch (algebraic geometry), a smooth arc of a real algebraic curve
 * Branch (graph theory), a path of degree-two vertices ending in vertices of degree unequal to two
 * Branch-decomposition, a hierarchical clustering of the edges of a graph, and branchwidth, a graph parameter defined from these decompositions
 * Branch (mathematical analysis), a single value of a multi-valued complex function
 * Branch point, of a multi-valued function, a point where all neighborhoods are multi-valued
 * Branched covering, a generalization of multi-valued functions in topology and algebraic geometry
 * Branch (set theory), a maximal totally ordered subset of a tree-ordered set

Religion

 * Branch (LDS Church), the smaller of two types of local congregation in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
 * Branch, in Jesus and messianic prophecy, a prophetic name attributed by Christians to Jesus

Other uses

 * Branch (academia), an academic sub-discipline
 * Branch (bridle), a crooked piece of iron in a bit shank
 * Branch (computer science), a point in a computer program where program-flow may change depending on a condition
 * Branch (hieroglyph), a member of the trees and plants hieroglyphs
 * Branches, the major sub-families of a language family
 * USS Branch, various US Navy ships
 * Branch, a sometimes-used taxonomic rank