Bourbon most commonly refers to the Royal House of Bourbon (French), Borbón Borbone (Italian) or Borbó (Catalan) or bourbon whiskey.

It can also refer to:

People

• Fortunato Borbon, former Governor of Batangas province in the Philippines
• Pedro Borbón, a former Major League Baseball pitcher
• Pedro Borbón, Jr., son of Pedro Borbón, also a former Major League Baseball pitcher

Places

In North America

• Bourbon, Indiana, United States
• Bourbon County, Kansas
• Bourbon County, Kentucky
• Bourbon, Missouri
• Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana
• Fort Bourbon, a fort on the northern shore of the Saskatchewan River, in Canada

In France

• Bourbon-l'Archambault, Allier département, France
• Bourbon-Lancy, Saône-et-Loire département, France
• Bourbonne-les-Bains, Haute-Marne département, France
• Bourbonnais, an area derived from the former dukedom of Bourbon, France
• Palais Bourbon, a palace in Paris
• Réunion island, known as Île Bourbon from 1642 until the French Revolution

Other

• Borbon, Cebu, a municipality in the Philippines
• Pebble Island, Falklands, known as "Isla Borbón" in Spanish
• Bhurban, a small town in Punjab, Pakistan

In politics and history

• House of Bourbon, a royal house of French and Spanish nobility
• Constable de Bourbon, a First Officer of the Crown of France
• Duke of Bourbon, a title in the peerage of France
• Bourbon Reforms, a series of measures taken by the Spanish Crown in the 18th century
• Bourbon Restoration, the return to the French throne of the Bourbon Dynasty
• Bourbon Family Compact, a series of 18th century alliances between France, Spain and the Two Sicilies
• Bourbon Democrat, a term used in the United States from 1876 to 1904 to refer to a conservative or classical liberal member of the Democratic Party

Food and drink

• Brasseries de Bourbon, a brewery
• Bourbon ball, a chocolate confection
• Bourbon biscuit, a chocolate sandwich biscuit
• Bourbon chicken, a recipe for chicken made with bourbon whiskey
• Bourbon coffee, a variety of Arabica coffee originating on Bourbon island (Réunion)
• Bourbon roses, a class of garden roses, first raised on Bourbon island
• Bourbon Corporation, a Japanese snack food manufacturer based in Kashiwazaki, Niigata
• Bourbon vanilla, a type of vanilla from various Indian Ocean islands
• Bourbon whiskey, a distilled spirit

Other

• Air Bourbon, a defunct airline
• Bourbon Crested Starling, an extinct bird from the family of Sturnidae
• USS Bourbon, a frigate in the Continental Navy named for the House of Bourbon
• "Moon Over Bourbon Street", a 1986 song by Sting
• Bourbon Street Beat, an American television show from 1959 to 1960

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Bourbon". Image Credit.

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