Bush is the name of some things and places, and a family name.

Things

Things commonly called Bush include:

• Bush – a particular shape of plant, largely synonymous with shrub.
• Bush is Australian English for rural, undeveloped land or country areas, not arid or remote enough to constitute the outback. It can include areas of natural flora even within conurbations. From this usage comes the phrase "to go bush" meaning to become feral or to leave civilization, and words like bushwhacker and bush pilot.
• Bush – naturally forested areas in New Zealand.
• The Bush – remote areas of Alaska which are off the road system, and are generally only accessible by air or water.
• A Bush is a mechanical fixing designed to minimise wear between moving parts, or for providing a strengthened fixing point such as in the suspension of a car or other vehicle. They are often made from flexible material such as rubber.
• Bush – a popular rock band, named after the Shepherd's Bush district in London.
• bush – a mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod
• bush – (vulgar usage) pubic hair most often of a woman ("Keep bush where it belongs..."), or, by extension, the external genitalia of a woman, or by further extension, intercourse with a woman ("I got some bush last night"), or by extension, pejoratively, a woman

Places

Places named Bush include:

• Bush, Louisiana.
• Bush House – a building in London, UK that for millions of overseas listeners represents a building from which the BBC broadcasts its foreign language programmes, the BBC World Service.

People

Members of the politically prominent Bush family

• Prescott Bush, U.S. Senator and financier, and his sons:
  • George H. W. Bush, U.S. President 1989–1993, his First Lady Barbara Pierce Bush, and their children:
    • George W. Bush, U.S. President 2001–, his First Lady Laura Welch Bush, and their daughters:
      • Barbara and Jenna Bush
    • John Ellis ‘Jeb’ Bush, Governor of Florida 1999, and his son
      • George P. Bush
    • Marvin Bush
    • Neil Bush, and his daughter
      • Lauren Bush
    • Dorothy Bush Koch

• Other children of Prescott Bush:
  • Jonathan Bush, and his son Billy Bush
  • Nancy Bush Ellis, and her son John Prescott Ellis
  • Prescott Bush, Jr., and his wife Elizabeth Bush

• James Smith Bush, grandfather of Prescott Bush, and Samuel P. Bush, father of Prescott Bush

Other people

• Donie Bush, baseball player and manager of the early 20th century
• Musician Kate Bush
• Robert Bush, Australian politician and English cricketer
• American actress Sophia Bush
• American scientist Vannevar Bush
• American college football player Reggie Bush