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Biology

* Campions, flowering plants in the genus '' Silene'' (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 ** ''
Silene coronaria ''Silene coronaria'', the rose campion, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to Asia and Europe. Other common names include dusty miller (this also refers to '' Centaurea cineraria'' and '' Jacobaea maritima''), m ...
'' rose campion ** '' Silene dioica'', red campion ** ''
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, occasio ...
'', white campion ** '' Silene tomentosa'', Gibraltar campion ** ''
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 it i ...
'', bladder campion ** ''
Silene stenophylla ''Silene stenophylla'' is a species of flowering plant in the family (biology), 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 ...
'', 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 * ''
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 Snym ...
of family Mantispidae


Education

* Campion College, Old Toongabbie, Australia * Campion College,
Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the 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 sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley Inter ...
* Campion College (Regina, Canada) *
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 ...
* Campion House College, Osterley, London * Campion Hall, Oxford *
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

* Albert Campion, 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) ''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 natura ...
, 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 Mi ...
'' *A character in the HBO Max show ''Raised By Wolves''


People

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


Places

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Campion, Western Australia Campion is an Ghost town, abandoned townsite in the Wheatbelt (Western Australia), Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, on the Koorda, Western Australia, Koorda–Bullfinch, Western Australia, Bullfinch Road. The closest locality is Chandler ...
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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 *
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 ...
* ''Campion'' (1989 TV series), a BBC television series (1989-1990) *
Campion (1959 TV series) ''Campion'' is a British mystery television series which first aired on the BBC in two series between 1959 and 1960. It is adaptation of two novels by Margery Allingham, ''Dancers in Mourning'' (1937) and ''Death of a Ghost'' (1934) featuring th ...
, a British mystery television series (1959-1960) *
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 engin ...
, a British maker of cycles, motorcycles and cars between 1901 and 1926 {{disambig, plant, geo