Campion may refer to:

Biology

* Campions, flowering plants in the genus ''

Silene ''Silene'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. Containing nearly 900 species, it is the largest genus in the family. Common names include campion and catchfly. Many ''Silene'' species are widely distributed, particularl ...

'' (carnation family, Caryophyllaceae), including: ** ''

Silene acaulis ''Silene acaulis'', known as moss campion or cushion pink, is a small wildflower that is common all over the high arctic and tundra and in high mountains of Eurasia and North America (Alps, Carpathians, southern Siberia, Pyrenees, British Isles, ...

'', moss campion ** ''

Silene coronaria ''Silene coronaria'', the rose campion, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to Eurasia. Other common names include dusty miller (which also refers to ''Centaurea cineraria'' and ''Jacobaea maritima''), mullein-pi ...

'' rose campion ** ''

Silene dioica ''Silene dioica'' (synonym (taxonomy), syn. ''Melandrium rubrum''), known as red campion and red catchfly, is a herbaceous flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to Europe and introduced to the Americas. Description It is a biennia ...

'', red campion ** ''

Silene latifolia ''Silene latifolia'', commonly known as white campion, is a dioecious flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to most of Europe, Western Asia and northern Africa. It is a herbaceous annual, occasionally biennial or a short-lived ...

'', white campion ** '' Silene tomentosa'', Gibraltar campion ** ''

Silene vulgaris ''Silene vulgaris'', the bladder campion or maidenstears, is a plant species of the genus ''Silene'' within the family ''Caryophyllaceae''. Native to the Old World, the plant has been naturalized elsewhere, including North America. The young sh ...

'', bladder campion ** ''

Silene stenophylla ''Silene stenophylla'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. Commonly called narrow-leafed campion, it is a species in the genus ''Silene''. It grows in the Arctic tundra of far eastern Siberia and the mountains of north ...

'', narrow-leafed campion ** '' Silene villosa,'' desert campion * ''

Sideridis rivularis ''Sideridis rivularis'', the campion, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in from the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula, through the whole of Europe. To the east, it is found in Central Asia and Siberia, up to Manchuria ...

'', the campion, a moth of Europe and Asia * ''Campion'' (lacewing), a genus of mantidfly in subfamily

Mantispinae Mantispinae is a subfamily of mantidflies in the family Mantispidae. There are at least 30 genera and 310 described species in Mantispinae. Genera These 33 genera belong to the subfamily Mantispinae: * '' Afromantispa'' Snyman and Ohl in Snyma ...

of family Mantispidae

Education

Campion College Campion College Australia is a Roman Catholic Church in Australia, Roman Catholic tertiary educational liberal arts college located at Austin Woodbury Place, Toongabbie, New South Wales, Toongabbie in the Western Sydney, western suburbs of Syd ...

, Old Toongabbie, Australia *

Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit (landform), sand spit which connects the town of Por ...

* Campion College (Regina, Canada) * Campion College, Gisborne * Campion House College, Osterley, London *

Campion Hall, Oxford Campion Hall is one of the four permanent private halls of the University of Oxford in England. A Catholic hall, it is run by the Society of Jesus and named after Edmund Campion, a martyr and fellow of St John's College, Oxford. The hall is lo ...

* Campion School (disambiguation) (several)

Fiction

Albert Campion Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. He first appeared as a supporting character in '' The Crime at Black Dudley'' (1929), an adventure story involving a ring of criminals ...

, a fictional detective created by English author Margery Allingham * Campion Bond, a minor character in the comic versions of ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' * Campion (Watership Down), a rabbit from the novel ''Watership Down'' by Richard Adams *A protagonists of the Alastair Reynolds novel ''

House of Suns ''House of Suns'' is a 2008 in literature, 2008 science fiction novel by Wales, Welsh author Alastair Reynolds. The novel was shortlisted for the 2009 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Setting Approximately six million years in the future, humanity has s ...

'' *A character in the HBO Max show ''Raised By Wolves''

People

Edmund Campion Edmund Campion, SJ (25 January 15401 December 1581) was an English Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was ...

(1540–1581), English Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr *

Paul Campion (radio host) Paul Campion (born 10 November 1969 in Sarina, Queensland) is an Australian radio host and recipient of the Australian Commercial Radio Award for best music personality. In 2013 he was acknowledged at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards for 2 ...

(1969-),

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...

broadcast radio Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based ra ...

host *

Thomas Campion Thomas Campion (sometimes spelled Campian; 12 February 1567 – 1 March 1620) was an English composer, poet, and physician. He was born in London, educated at Cambridge, and studied law in Gray's Inn. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masque ...

(1567 – 1621), English composer, poet, and physician

Places

Campion, Western Australia Campion is an abandoned townsite in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, located in the Shire of Nungarin on the Koorda–Bullfinch Road. It is situated within the locality of Chandler, with the closest town being Mukinbudin. History ...

Campion Air Force Station Campion Air Force Station (AAC ID: F-08) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located east-southeast of Galena, Alaska. The Aircraft Control and Warning station was closed on 1 November 1983, and the s ...

, Alaska, United States *

Campion, Colorado Campion is an unincorporated community located in southeastern Larimer County, Colorado, United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. ...

, United States

Sport

* Campion A.F.C., football team in Bradford, England

Other uses

Campion (surname) Campion is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bill Campion (born 1952), American basketball player * Carlo Antonio Campioni (born Charles Antoine Campion; 1720–1788), Italian composer * Cassie Jackman (born 1972), English squa ...

* ''Campion'' (1989 TV series), a BBC television series (1989-1990) * Campion (1959 TV series), a British mystery television series (1959-1960) * Campion Cycle Company, a British maker of cycles, motorcycles and cars between 1901 and 1926 {{disambig, plant, geo