Bion

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As a person's name, Bion may refer to:

• Bion of Smyrna, the last bucolic Greek poet (II BC)
• Bion of Abdera, a Greek philosopher from the school of Democritus (IV BC ?)
• Bion of Borysthenes, a popular Greek philosopher (325-246 BC)
• Wilfred Bion, a British psychoanalyst
• Bion Barnett, the founder of Barnett Bank, in Florida
• Bion Tsang, a cellist and assistant professor of music at the University of Texas

In science, Bion may refer to:

• Bion (physics), the bound state of two solitons
• Bion (satellite), a series of Soviet satellites from the 1960s and 1970s

In pseudoscience, Bion refers to hypothetical corpuscles of biological energy proposed by Wilhelm Reich.

Bion may also refer to:

• Bion, Manche, a commune in France