Claude Champion (30 June 1906 – September 1982) was an Australian public servant in Papua New Guinea.

Born in 1906 to Herbert Champion, who served as Government Secretary of the Territory of Papua from 1913 to 1942, Claude was educated at the Southport School in Queensland.

[1] Despite being discouraged from joining the civil service by his father, who feared being accused of nepotism,[2] he was appointed a government clerk in 1927, before becoming a patrol officer the following year.

[3] During World War II he was a member of the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit from 1942 to 1946, rising to the rank of major.

While he was acting as Government Secretary in the early 1950s, he was appointed to the Legislative Council following the 1951 elections, alongside his brother Ivan.