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 mountain-dwelling wildflower that is common all over the high arctic and tundra and in high mountains of Eurasia and North America (Alps, Carpathians, southern Siberia, Pyrenee ...
'', moss campion
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Silene coronaria'' rose campion
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Silene dioica
''Silene dioica'' (syn. ''Melandrium rubrum''), known as red campion and red catchfly, is a herbaceous flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native throughout central, western and northern Europe, and locally in southern Europe. It has b ...
'', red campion
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Silene latifolia
''Silene latifolia'' subsp. ''alba'' (formerly ''Melandrium album''), the 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, occ ...
'', white campion
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Silene tomentosa'', Gibraltar campion
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Silene vulgaris
''Silene vulgaris'', the bladder campion or maidenstears, is a plant species of the genus '' Silene'' of the family '' Caryophyllaceae''. It is native to Europe, where in some parts it is eaten, but is also widespread in North America, where i ...
'', 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
''Silene villosa'', the desert campion, is a therophyte and an annual plant of the family Caryophyllaceae and genus '' Silene''. It has ascending and spreading branches of around 50 cm. It blooms from February to April and its flowers are w ...
,'' desert campion
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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
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''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 Snym ...
of family Mantispidae
Education
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Campion College
Campion College Australia is a Roman Catholic tertiary educational liberal arts college located at Austin Woodbury Place, Toongabbie in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Named in honour of Saint Edmund Campion, Camp ...
, Old Toongabbie, Australia
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Campion College
Campion College Australia is a Roman Catholic tertiary educational liberal arts college located at Austin Woodbury Place, Toongabbie in the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Named in honour of Saint Edmund Campion, Camp ...
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Kingston, Jamaica
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Campion College (Regina, Canada)
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Campion College, Gisborne
Campion College, Gisborne is a Catholic, State-integrated, co-educational college located in Gisborne, New Zealand including students from Year 7 to Year 13. The college received its name from its patron saint, St Edmund Campion whose feast da ...
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Campion House College, Osterley, London
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Campion Hall, Oxford
Campion Hall is one of the five permanent private halls of the University of Oxford in England. 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 located on Brewer St ...
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Campion School (disambiguation) Campion School may refer to:
England
* Campion School, Bugbrooke
*Campion School, Hornchurch
*Campion School, Leamington Spa
Greece
*Campion School (Athens)
India
*Campion School, Mumbai
* Campion School, Bhopal
*Campion Anglo-Indian Higher Sec ...
(several)
Fiction
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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
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Campion Bond
This is a collection of the characters from ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'', a comic book series created by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, and its spin-off ''Nemo''.
Overview
Character's name
*Original source/author
*Appearances or me ...
, a minor character in the comic versions of ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen''
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Campion (Watership Down)
''Watership Down'' is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. Set in Berkshire in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural w ...
, 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 science fiction novel by Welsh author Alastair Reynolds.
Connections to previous works
The novel is set in the same fictional setting as Reynolds' novella "Thousandth Night", which appears in the anthology '' One Mil ...
''
*A character in the HBO Max show
''Raised By Wolves''
People
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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
Places
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Campion, Western Australia
Campion is an abandoned townsite in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, on the Koorda– Bullfinch Road. The closest locality is Chandler and the closest main town is Mukinbudin.
Campion was named after Sir William Campion, the Go ...
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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 si ...
, Alaska, United States
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Campion, Colorado
Campion is an unincorporated community located in southeastern Larimer County, Colorado, United States.[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 ...]
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''Campion'' (1989 TV series), a BBC television series (1989-1990)
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Campion (1959 TV series), a British mystery television series (1959-1960)
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Campion Cycle Company
The Campion Cycle Company was a British bicycle, cyclecar and motor cycle maker, active from 1893 to 1926 and based in Nottingham, England. In 1927 it was purchased by Currys.
Motor cycles
Campion motorcycles used a variety of proprietary engi ...
, a British maker of cycles, motorcycles and cars between 1901 and 1926
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