Bison (disambiguation)
Wikimedia disambiguation page
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 Ra, which broadcasts North Dakota State Bison athletics
Bison (2014 film), a Canadian short film
Bison Kaalamaadan, an Indian Tamil-language biographical sports drama film
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.
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