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

People

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

Art, entertainment, and media

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

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

Sports teams

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

See also

• Bizon (disambiguation)
• Bisone, a frazione of the Italian commune of Cisano Bergamasco