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

People

Surname

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

Other media

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

Sports teams

Professional

Collegiate

Technology

Vehicles

See also

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