Campion

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Campion may refer to:

Red Campion (Silene dioica)

Biology

• Flowering plants of the Caryophyllaceae genera Lychnis and Silene, including:
  • Silene acaulis, or moss campion, a flower found in Eurasia and North America
  • Silene dioica, or red campion, a native European flower
  • Silene latifolia, or white campion, a flower found in Africa, western Asia, Europe and North America
  • Silene tomentosa, or Gibraltar campion, endemic to Gibraltar
  • Silene vulgaris, or bladder campion, native to Europe but widespread in North America
  • Silene stenophylla, or narrow-leafed campion, native to far eastern Siberia. Individuals have been recently regenerated from frozen fruit dating from the Pleistocene

Family name and famous people

• Campion (surname)
• Edmund Campion Jesuit Saint and Martyr, after whom many of the educational institutions are named
• George Bryant Campion (1795-1870), English painter
• Thomas Campion English poet and composer

Business and commerce

• Campion (boats), Canadian manufacturer of boats
• Campion Cycle Company, a British maker of cycles, motorcycles and cars between 1901 and 1926.

Television

• Campion (TV series), a BBC television series (1989-1990)

Places

• Campion, Colorado, United States
• Campion Air Force Station, Alaska. Located on the Yukon River near Galena, Alaska

Education

• Campion College, Old Toongabbie, Australia
• Campion College, Kingston, Jamaica
• Campion College (Regina, Canada)
• Campion College, Gisborne
• Campion House College, Osterley, London
• Campion Hall, Oxford
• Campion School (disambiguation) (several)

Fiction

• Albert Campion, a fictional detective
• 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
• Campion, one of the protagonists of the Alastair Reynolds novel House of Suns.