Sir Harry George Champion CIE (17 August 1891 – 20 June 1979) was a Geographer and forest officer in British India who created a classification of the forest types of India and Burma.
He left India in 1939 and became a Professor of Forestry at Oxford, succeeding Robert Scott Troup.
Troup had offered him a position at the Imperial Forestry Institute in 1924 but Champion chose not to join it.
[1] Champion published an initial classification of the forest types of India and Burma in 1936.
[2] His younger brother F. W. Champion was also a forester in India and a pioneer in wildlife photography.