Bison (disambiguation)

Bison is a taxonomic group containing six species of large even-toed ungulates.

Bison or Bisons may also refer to:

Places

• Bison, Kansas, a city
• Bison, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community
• Bison, South Dakota, a town

People

• Bison Dele (born 1969, presumed dead 2002), American professional basketball player
• Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (1762–1844), Italian painter
• Béla I of Hungary (c. 1016-1063), King of Hungary nicknamed "the Bison"
• Matt Kemp (b. 1984), American baseball player nicknamed "The Bison"

Fictional characters

• Balrog (Street Fighter), known as Mike Bison or M. Bison in Japan, a character in Street Fighter media
• Bison (comics), a Marvel comic book supervillain
• M. Bison, a character in Street Fighter media

In the military

• Opération Bison, the French military operation in Chad in 1969–1972
• Operation Bison (Jammu & Kashmir 1948), an Indian Army assault in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947
• Avro Bison, a biplane spotter aircraft
• Bison, a French Guépard class destroyer sunk in 1940 during the Norwegian campaign
• Bison (armoured personnel carrier), a Canadian fighting vehicle of the Mowag Piranha family
• Bison concrete armoured lorry, a British improvised mobile pillbox of 1940
• 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
• PP-19 Bizon or bison, a Russian submachine gun
• The NATO reporting name of the Myasishchev M-4, a Soviet strategic bomber

Sports teams

Professional

• Buffalo Bisons (disambiguation), numerous Buffalo, New York teams in baseball, basketball, football and hockey
• Kentucky Bisons, an American Basketball Association team
• Boulder Junior Bison, a junior A ice hockey team in Boulder County, Colorado
• Granby Bisons, a junior ice hockey team in Granby, Quebec, Canada, since renamed
• Okotoks Bisons, a junior B ice hockey team in Okotoks, Alberta, Canada
• Wainwright Bisons, a junior B ice hockey team in Wainwright, Alberta
• 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
• Bristol Bisons RFC, an English rugby union team
• Bisons, a former name of the Mid-Missouri Mavericks, a defunct minor league baseball team

Collegiate

• Bucknell Bison, the athletic teams of Bucknell University
• North Dakota State Bison, the athletic teams of North Dakota State University
  • Bison Sports Arena, Fargo, North Dakota
• Bison, the teams of Gallaudet University, District of Columbia
• Bisons, the NCAA Division I teams of Lipscomb University, Nashville, Tennessee
• Bisons, the Division II teams of Harding University, Arkansas
• Bison, 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
• BiSON or Bi-State Optical Network, a high-speed optical network that connects educational institutions in Colorado and Wyoming
• BiSON or Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network

Vehicles

• Chevrolet Bison, heavy duty trucks manufactured between 1977 and 1988
• Cosmos Bison, ultralight aircraft
• Leyland Bison, a lorry built by Leyland Motors in the 1930s

Businesses

• BISON, a group of companies (Bull, ICL, Siemens, Olivetti, and Nixdorf)
• Bison Transport, a Canadian transportation and warehousing company
• Bison Radio Network, which broadcasts North Dakota State Bison athletics

Music

• Bison B.C., a heavy metal band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Bison (indie folk band) from Chesapeake, Virginia

Other uses

• Gaur, also called Indian bison

See also

• Bizon (disambiguation)