Bureau may refer to:
- Public administration offices of various kinds
- Government agencies of various kinds
- News bureau, an office for gathering or distributing news, generally for a given geographical location
- Desk, a piece of furniture, typically a table used for office work
- Chest of drawers, a piece of furniture that has multiple, stacked, parallel drawers
- Bureau (European Parliament), the administrative organ of the Parliament of the European Union
- The Bureau, English New Wave soul music group
- Bureau County, Illinois
- Le Bureau, a French television series
- Federal Bureau of Investigation, the leading internal law enforcement agency in the United States
- Service bureau, a company which provides business services for a fee
- Citizens Advice Bureau, a network of independent UK charities that give free, confidential help to people for money, legal, consumer and other problems
- People
- Louis Édouard Bureau (1830–1918), French physician and botanist
- Jacques Bureau (1860–1933), Canadian politician
- André Bureau (born 1935), Canadian lawyer and communications executive
- Marc Bureau (politician) (born 1955), Canadian politician; mayor of Gatineau
- Stéphan Bureau (born 1964), Canadian television journalist
- Marc Bureau (ice hockey) (born 1966), Canadian ice hockey player
Famous quotes containing the word bureau:
“Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, “What will you have, sir?” And I said, “A glass of hemlock.””
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“We passed the Children’s Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“If this bureau had a prayer for use around horse parks, it would go something like this: Lead us not among bleeding-hearts to whom horses are cute or sweet or adorable, and deliver us from horse-lovers. Amen.... With that established, let’s talk about the death of Seabiscuit the other night. It isn’t mawkish to say, there was a racehorse, a horse that gave race fans as much pleasure as any that ever lived and one that will be remembered as long and as warmly.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)