Bison (disambiguation)

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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

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 media
M. Bison, a Street Fighter character

Music

Groups

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

Songs

"Bison" (song), by The Fireman

Radio

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.
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
Bison, the NATO reporting name of the Myasishchev M-4, a Soviet strategic bomber

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
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
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