Buffalo most commonly refers to:

• Various mammals of the Bovinae subfamily (bovines), including
  • Domestic Asian Water buffalo
  • Wild Asian Water Buffalo
  • African Buffalo
  • The American Bison is also often called "Buffalo", though strictly this is considered inaccurate
• Buffalo, New York, a U.S. city (the name is apparently not connected with the animal)

Buffalo may also refer to:

Bovines

• Buffalo, any of various wild oxen of the family Bovidae, suspected to be related to the Bubalus genus either directly or through the more distant Syncerus genus
• Wild Asian Water Buffalo
• Domestic buffalo, also known as the Water buffalo or Domestic Asian water buffalo, whose milk is used to produce Mozzarella cheese.
• Mountain Anoa (Bubalus quarlesi)
• Bison, a genus that includes the European Bison (Bison bonasus) and the American Bison (Bison bison), which are also sometimes called "buffalos".
• White buffalo, bison that are white in color
• Gaur (Bos gaurus) sometimes called the Indian Buffalo
• African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), the buffalo native to Africa

Fish

Members of the freshwater fish genus Ictiobus, commonly known as "buffalo fish"

Plants

• Sweet grass (Hierochloe odorata), also known as "buffalo grass"
• Buffalo bean, certain Fabaceae
• Buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides), a lawn-grass substitute

Places

United States

• Buffalo, New York
• Buffalo, Illinois
• Buffalo, Indiana
• Buffalo, Iowa
• Buffalo, Kansas
• Buffalo, Minnesota
• Buffalo, Missouri
• Buffalo, North Dakota
• Buffalo, Oklahoma
• Buffalo, South Carolina
• Buffalo, South Dakota
• Buffalo, Texas
• Buffalo, West Virginia
• Buffalo, Marquette County, Wisconsin
• Buffalo, Wyoming
• Buffalo County, Nebraska
• Buffalo County, South Dakota
• Buffalo County, Wisconsin
  • Buffalo, Buffalo County, Wisconsin
  • Buffalo City, Wisconsin
• Buffalo Grove, Illinois
• Buffalo Township, Minnesota
• Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania, one of four townships in Pennsylvania
• New Buffalo, Michigan
• Buffalo Gap National Grassland, a National Grassland located in South Dakota
• Buffalo Bayou, a main waterway flowing through Houston, Texas
• Buffalo River and Buffalo Creek, the name of several rivers
• Buffalo Central Terminal, a key railroad station from the 1920s through the 1970s
• Buffalo Bill's, a hotel and casino in Primm, Nevada
• University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Canada

• Calgary Buffalo, an election district in Alberta, Canada
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Alberta, Canada.
• Province of Buffalo, a proposed province in Western Canada that would have encompassed what are now Alberta and Saskatchewan

South Africa

• Buffalo City Local Municipality, in the Eastern Cape Province
• Buffalo Park, a cricket ground in East London, Eastern Cape Province
• Buffalo River (South Africa), which formed part of the old border between Zululand and Natal

Elsewhere

• Mount Buffalo National Park, a mountain plateau in Victoria, northeast of Melbourne, Australia

Military units

• Buffalo (mine protected vehicle), a military vehicle that allows its operator to examine land mines safely
• HMS Buffalo, one of several British Royal Navy ships
• USS Buffalo, one of several United States Navy ships
• Buffalo Soldier, a nickname for several regiments of the United States Army
• Brewster Buffalo, or Brewster F2A, a U.S. fighter plane which saw extensive service with both Allied and Axis air forces during World War II
• de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo, a V-STOL aircraft produced between 1964 to 1987
• Landing Vehicle Tracked (sometimes designated Buffalo or Water Buffalo), an amphibious vehicle used by Allied forces during World War II

Sports teams

• Buffalo Bills, a professional American football team based in Buffalo, New York
• Buffalo Bisons (disambiguation), one of several sports teams from Buffalo, New York
• Buffalo Braves, an NBA basketball team from 1970-1978, now the Los Angeles Clippers
• Buffalo Sabres, a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York
• Colorado Buffaloes, or Buffs, the intercollegiate athletic teams of the University of Colorado
• South African national Australian rules football team, nicknamed the Buffaloes
• Vientiane Buffalos RUFC, a semi-pro rugby union football club from Vientiane, Lao P.D.R., comprised mostly of expatriate players
• Wichita Southeast High School, whose mascot is the Buffalo

People

See Also: Chief Buffalo (disambiguation)

• Buffalo Bird Woman (1839?1932), Hidatsa author
• Buffalo Bill (1845?1917), an American soldier, buffalo hunter and showman
• Chief Buffalo (Gichi-weshki 1759-1855) Ojibwe leader
• White Buffalo (chief) (1862­­?1929), chief of the Northern Cheyenne
• Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (1890?1932), journalist, soldier and Native American impostor
• Buffalo Bob Smith (1917?1998), host of the children's show Howdy Doody
• Black Buffalo Woman, the first wife of Crazy Horse
• Buffalo Calf Road Woman, Cheyenne heroine
• Buffalo Hump, Comanche leader
• Buffalo Six, six Yemeni-Americans convicted of supporting al-Qaeda
• Johnson W. Greybuffalo (born 1974), murderer
• Beshekee, (Buffalo) an Ojibwa chief of the Leech Lake Band

Other uses

Arts and entertainment

• Buffalo ?66, a 1998 film by writer/director Vincent Gallo
• Buffalo (album), a live album by Frank Zappa
• Buffalo (band), a pioneering Australian heavy metal band
• Buffalo (drinking game), a drinking game especially popular in Iceland
• Buffalo Man, character on most Jamiroquai album covers
• Grant Lee Buffalo, a 1990s rock band
• World's Largest Buffalo, a 60 ton sculpture of an American Bison located in Jamestown, North Dakota

Computing

• Buffalo Technology, one of several divisions of the Japanese Melco Group
• Buffalo network-attached storage series of storage devices
• BUFFALO (Bit User Fast Friendly Aid to Logical Operations), a monitor program for the Freescale 68HC11 microcontroller

Currency

• American Buffalo (coin), a one ounce 24-karat gold bullion coin introduced by the United States Mint on 22nd June 2006
• Buffalo nickel (see Indian Head nickel), an American nickel five-cent piece minted from 1913 to 1938

Transport

• Buffalo Airways, a family-run charter and scheduled airline based in Hay River, Canada
• Buffalo (1901 automobile), a US automobile
• Buffalo Electric Vehicle Company, a US automobile company
• Buffalo (1872 - 1892), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives

Other

• Buffalo Boots, a brand of shoe
• Buffalo English, or Buffalonian, a variety of English found in Buffalo, New York
• Buffalo wings, unbreaded chicken wing sections, deep-fried and coated in a spicy sauce
• The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, a fraternal organisation
• Silver Buffalo Award, the Boy Scouts of America's highest commendation
• Buffalo, a West London rude boy fashion trend, celebrated in Neneh Cherry's song "Buffalo Stance"
• Buffaloes, a term for Belgians who immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century, travelling through the city of Buffalo, New York, on their way to Detroit and Chicago
• An archaic term for "pistol whip"

See also

• New Buffalo (disambiguation)
• Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, a grammatical sentence

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