Bluff or The Bluff may refer to:

Places

Australia

Bluff, Queensland Bluff is a rural town and suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Bluff had a population of 324 people. Geography The town is located on the Capricorn High ...

, Australia, a town * The Bluff, Queensland (Ipswich), a rural locality in the city of Ipswich * The Bluff, Queensland (Toowoomba Region), a rural locality * Bluff River (New South Wales) * Bluff River (Murchison River), a river of Tasmania * Bluff River (Prosser River), Tasmania; see Levendale, Tasmania * "The Bluff", common name of

Rosetta Head Rosetta Head, known as Kongkengguwar by the Ramindjeri people but more commonly known as The Bluff, is a headland located on the south coast of Fleurieu Peninsula in Encounter Bay, South Australia, within the local government area of the City o ...

, a headland adjoining Victor Harbor in South Australia

United States

* Bluff, Alabama, an unincorporated community * Bluff, Alaska, a ghost town * The Bluff (Atlanta), Georgia, a neighborhood of Atlanta *

Bluff (Pittsburgh) Uptown or The Bluff (also known by its former name Soho and prior to the 20th century as Boyd's Hill) is a neighborhood in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to the southeast of the city's Central Business District. It is bordered in the north ...

, Pennsylvania, a neighborhood * Bluff, Texas, an unincorporated community *

Bluff, Utah Bluff () is a town in San Juan County, Utah, United States. The population was 320 at the 2000 census. Bluff was incorporated in 2018. Ann Leppanen is currently the mayor. History Under the direction of John Taylor, Silas S. Smith and Danish ...

, a town *

Bluff Creek (California) Playa Vista is a neighborhood in the Westside area of Los Angeles, California, United States. The area was the headquarters of Hughes Aircraft Company from 1941 to 1985 and the site of the construction of the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose ...

, a watercourse in California that empties into

Ballona Wetlands Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve (pronunciation: "Bah-yo-nuh" or "Buy-yo-nah" ) is a protected area that once served as the natural estuary for neighboring Ballona Creek. The site is located in Los Angeles County, California, just south o ...

Bluff Creek (Des Moines River tributary) Bluff Creek is a stream located in the U.S. state of Iowa. It serves as a tributary to the Des Moines River The Des Moines River () is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the upper Midwestern United States that is approximately long from i ...

, a stream in Iowa * Bluff Creek (Cimarron River tributary), a stream in Kansas; see Clark County State Lake *

Bluff Swamp Bluff Swamp (, ) is located in northwest Ascension Parish, Louisiana. The potential site covers 2,208 acres (8.9 km2). About 1,240 acres (5.0 km2) of the Bluff Swamp area make up the Bluff Swamp Wildlife Refuge. In 1996, local resident ...

, Ascension Parish, Louisiana

Other places

Bluff, New Zealand Bluff (), previously known as Campbelltown and often referred to as "The Bluff", is a town and seaport in the Southland region, on the southern coast of the South Island of New Zealand serving as the main port of Invercargill. It is the south ...

, a town and seaport in the South Island (colloquially known as The Bluff) *

Bluff River (New Zealand) The Bluff River is a river of New Zealand. It is in the Canterbury Region and is a tributary of the Waiau Toa / Clarence River. The Bluff River flows south for from the slopes of Mount Major in the Inland Kaikōura Range. Confusingly, the Bluf ...

Bluff, KwaZulu-Natal Bluff or The Bluff is a geographical area, containing eight suburbs in Durban, eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The Bluff forms a large part of the South Durban Basin, a sub-region located south of Durban ...

, South Africa, a geographical region of Durban *

Yamate is the name of a historic neighbourhood in Naka-ku, Yokohama often referred to in English as ''The Bluff.'' The neighbourhood is famous as having been a foreigners' residential area in the Bakumatsu, Meiji and Taishō periods. While still domi ...

, a neighborhood of Yokohama, Japan, often called "The Bluff" in English * The Bluff, a mound near Ypres, Belgium, fought over by the British and Germans in the First World War

Actions of the Bluff, 1916 The Actions of the Bluff were local operations in 1916 carried out in Flanders during the First World War by the German 4th Army and the British Second Army. The Bluff is a mound near St Eloi, south-east of Ypres in Belgium, created from a sp ...

The Bluff, Bahamas The Bluff very often refers to a settlement on North Eleuthera, Bahamas. But there are three Bahamian communities having 'Bluff' in their name. South Andros There are three settlements in the Bahamas called "The Bluff". The first is on South And ...

, the name of three communities *

The Bluff (Cayman Islands) The Bluff is the highest part of the Cayman Islands, a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean Sea. It stands at the eastern end of the island of Cayman Brac and has a maximum elevation of . Description The Bluf ...

, the highest point of the Cayman Islands, located on the island of Cayman Brac *

Bluff Island (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) Bluff Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The island lies north from Port Blair. Geography The isla ...

Bluff Island (Antarctica) Bluff Island is an island lying south of Magnetic Island and west of the Breidnes Peninsula, Vestfold Hills, in Prydz Bay, Antarctica. It was mapped from aerial photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37, re-emapped by t ...

, Prydz Bay, Antarctica *

Bluff Island (Hong Kong) Bluff Island, indigenously known as Sha Tong Hau Shan (), also known as Ung Kong (), is an island in Port Shelter, south of Sai Kung Peninsula of Hong Kong. It is an important area for corals and other marine life. The island is zoned as Site of Sp ...

, Port Shelter, Sai Kung District, Hong Kong

Game-oriented

Bluff (poker) In the card game of poker, a bluff is a bet or raise made with a hand which is not thought to be the best hand. ''To bluff'' is to make such a bet. The objective of a bluff is to induce a fold by at least one opponent who holds a better hand. ...

, a tactic in the game of poker * ''Bluff'' (magazine), covering poker * A slang term for liar's dice, a dice game

Film and TV

* ''Bluff'' (2007 film), a Canadian film * ''Bluff'' (1976 film) an Italian crime-comedy film * ''Bluff'' (1924 film), an American drama silent film * ''Bluff'' (1916 film), an American comedy silent film directed by

Rae Berger Rae Berger or ''Rhea Berger'' (March 26, 1877 – November 9, 1931) was an early silent film actor and director. He is erroneously listed in Duke University's "Women Film Pioneers"; he was in fact male. He married actress Mary Martin. Director ...

* "Bluff" (''Prison Break'' episode), an episode of the 2006 television series ''Prison Break'' * ''Bluff'' (TV series), a Canadian game show broadcast by CBC Television

People

* nickname of

Benjamin Wade Benjamin Franklin "Bluff" Wade (October 27, 1800March 2, 1878) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator for Ohio from 1851 to 1869. He is known for his leading role among the Radical Republicans.

(1800–1878), American lawyer and politician * Richard Bluff, English visual effects supervisor

Other uses

Bluff (Canadian prairies) A bluff is a Canadian English term used on the Canadian Prairies to indicate a clump of trees on the prairies, usually poplars or willows."bluff", ''Canadian Oxford Dictionary'' 2nd ed., (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2004). A bluff is natur ...

is a term in Canadian English for a group of trees on the prairies *

Bluff (geography) In geography and geology, a cliff or rock face is an area of rock which has a general angle defined by the vertical, or nearly vertical. Cliffs are formed by the processes of weathering and erosion, with the effect of gravity. Cliffs are comm ...

is a steep slope or rounded cliff, usually overlooking a shoreline or other body of water * ''The Bluff'' (album), a 2001 album by Sarah Dougher