Sir Harry George Champion (17 August 1891 - 20 June 1979) was a forest officer in British India who created a classification of the forest types of India and Burma.

He studied at New College, Oxford, and obtained a degree in chemistry in 1912 and then studied botany and forestry under William Schilch. He joined the Indian Forest Servicee in 1915 and became a silviculturist at the Forest Research Institute at Dehra Dun staying there until 1936 before becoming a Conervator in the United Provinces. He left India in 1939 and became a Professor of forestry at Oxford succeeding R S Troup. R S Troup had offered him a position at the Imperial Forestry Institute in 1924 but Champion chose not to join it. He married Troup's secretary Crystal Parsons.

Champion published an initial classification of the forest types of India and Burma in 1936. This was revised in 1968 by S K. Seth and this is referred to as the Champion-Seth classification. His younger brother F. W. Champion

F. W. Champion

Frederick Walter Champion was an English forester, who worked in British India and East Africa. In the UK and India he became famous in the 1920s as the first wildlife photographer and conservationist....

was also a forester in India and a pioneer in wildlife photography.