Sara Champion (11 November 1946 – 14 May 2000) was a British archaeologist with an interest in the European Iron Age and the role and visibility of women working in archaeology.
After Benenden, Champion attended the University of Edinburgh, where she studied for a master's degree in archaeology under Stuart Piggott.
[1] Champion also worked for English Heritage, overseeing the upkeep and preservation of the scheduled monuments of West Hampshire and Dorset.
In 1972 the Champions moved to Southampton, where their two sons, Edward and William (the drummer of Coldplay), were born, in the mid-1970s, and 1978 respectively.
The band Coldplay, of which her son Will is a member, dedicated their debut album Parachutes to her on its release in July 2000.