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 squash player, also known as Cassie Campion Ed Campion (1915–2005), American basketball player Édith Cresson (born Édith Campion; 1934), French politician Edith Campion (1923—2007), New Zealand actress, writer and co-founder of the New Zealand Players Saint Edmund Campion SJ (1540–1581), English Jesuit and Catholic martyr Edmund Campion (historian) (born 1933), Australian priest and historian Gerald Campion (1921–2002), English actor Kevin Campion (rugby league) (born 1971), Australian rugby league player Jane Campion (born 1954), New Zealand film director John F. Campion (1848–1916), Irish-American mine owner, investor, and philanthropist John Joseph Campion (1963–2020), Irish-American businessman Maria Ann Campion (1777–1803), Irish actress Paul Campion (film director) (born 1967), English film director Paul Campion (French Navy officer) (fl. 1904), French admiral Paul Campion (radio host) (born 1969), Australian radio host Richard Campion (theatre director) (1923–2013), New Zealand theatre director Sarah Campion (1906–2002), pseudonym of Mary Rose Alpers, novelist and social activist Thomas Campion (1567–1620), English composer, poet, and physician T. J. Campion (1918-1996), American Football Player Vikki Campion, spouse of the 17th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and 13th leader of the National Party Barnaby Joyce Sir William Campion (governor) KCMG (1870–1951), English politician and governor of Western Australia William Campion (1640-1702), MP for Kent William Campion (organist) (fl. 1543), English musician Denys Campion Potts (1923–2016), English academic Fictional characters Albert Campion, fictional detective Charles D. Campion, character in The Stand See also Campion (disambiguation) English-language surnames Surnames of Norman origin