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