Bison (disambiguation)
# 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 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
   * 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
