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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 ** '' Silene coronaria'' rose campion ** ''
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 ...
'', 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,'' desert campion * '' Sideridis rivularis'', 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

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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, Campi ...
, Old Toongabbie, Australia *
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, Campi ...
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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 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 ...
* Campion School (disambiguation) (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 *
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'' *
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

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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 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