Bion may refer to:

Science

Bion (satellite) The Bion satellites (), also named Biocosmos, is a series of Soviet (later Russian) biosatellites focused on space medicine. Bion space program Bion precursor flights and Bion flights The Soviet biosatellite program began in 1966 with ...

, a series of Soviet satellites from the 1960s and 1970s * Bion, in physics, the bound state of two solitons * Bions, hypothetical corpuscles of biological energy proposed by psychoanalyst

Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich ( ; ; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian Doctor of Medicine, doctor of medicine and a psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author of several in ...

Places

* Bion, Manche, a commune in France *

Saint-Agnin-sur-Bion Saint-Agnin-sur-Bion () is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Isère department The following is a list of the 512 communes in the French department of Isère. The communes ...

, a commune of southeastern France *

Revest-du-Bion Revest-du-Bion is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department The following is a list of the 198 communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Prov ...

, a French commune near the Alps

People with the given name Bion

* Bion of Miletus, a Greek sculptor (6th–5th century BC) *

Bion of Smyrna Bion (Βίων ) was an ancient Greek bucolic poet from Smyrna, probably active at the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC. He is named in the Suda as one of three canonical bucolic poets alongside Theocritus and Moschus. One ...

, also known as Bion of Phlossa, bucolic Greek poet (fl. 2nd century BC) *

Bion of Abdera Bion of Abdera (c. 430 – 370 BC) (, ''gen.'' Βίωνος) was a Greek mathematician and astronomer of Abdera, Thrace, and a pupil of Democritus. Strabo refers to him as an astrologer. He wrote both in the Ionic and Attic dialects, and was the f ...

, a Greek philosopher from the school of Democritus (fl. c. 4th century BC) * Bion of Soli, an ancient Greek writer of history *

Bion of Borysthenes Bion of Borysthenes (, ''gen''.: Βίωνος; BC) was a Greek philosopher. After being sold into slavery, and then released, he moved to Athens, where he studied in almost every school of philosophy. It is, however, for his Cynic-style d ...

, Greek philosopher (325–250 BC) * Bion Barnett, the founder of Barnett Bank, in Florida *

Bion Tsang Bion Yu-Ting Tsang (traditional Chinese/simplified Chinese: 章雨亭; pinyin: Zhāng Yǔ-Tíng) (born May 4, 1967) is an American cellist and professor. Biography Bion Tsang was born in Lansing, Michigan to Chinese parents. His father, Paul ...

, American cellist and professor * Bion J. Arnold, 1861–1942, American electrical engineer

People with the surname Bion

* Louis-Eugène Bion (1807-1860), French sculptor * Nicholas Bion (1652–1733), French scientific instrument-maker *

Wilfred Bion Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential English psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965. Early life and military service Bion was born in Mathu ...

, a British psychoanalyst *

Anne-Sophie Bion Anne-Sophie Bion is a French film editor best known for her work in the 2011 silent film, '' The Artist'', directed by Michel Hazanavicius. On 24 January 2012 Bion received an Academy Award The Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars ...

, French film editor

Other uses

* ''Bion'' (opera), by the French composer Étienne Méhul *

BionX BionX was a Canadian maker of electric motors for bicycles as well as bicycle retrofit kits, operating from 1998 to 2018, originally named EPS (Electric Propulsion Systems

, Canadian maker of electric motors for bicycles * Bion, a fictional planet in '' Metroid Prime: Federation Force''