John Coates may refer to:
Entertainment
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John Coates (producer)
John Coates (7 November 1927 – 16 September 2012) was a British film producer, best known for producing the animated film '' The Snowman'' based on the picture book by Raymond Briggs, one of the first animated productions screened on Chan ...
(1927–2012), producer of ''The Snowman'' and other animated TV features
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John Coates (tenor)
John Coates (29 June 1865 – 16 August 1941) was a leading English tenor, who sang in opera and oratorio and on the concert platform. His repertoire ranged from Bach and Purcell to contemporary works, and embraced the major heldentenor roles i ...
(1865–1941), English tenor
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John Coates Jr. (1938–2017), American jazz pianist
Sports
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John Coates (cricketer)
John Wind Coates, Jr. (christened 26 February 1828 – 7 July 1870) was an English people, English first-class cricketer.
The son of John Wind Coates senior, he was born in February 1828 at Stokesley, Stokesley, Yorkshire. He served in the ...
(1828–1870), English cricketer
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John Coates (footballer)
John Coates is a footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Football League for Southport and Chester
Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh ...
(born 1944), football goalkeeper
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John Coates (sports administrator) (born 1950), Australian solicitor, president of the Australian Olympic Committee
Others
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John H. Coates (1945–2022), Australian mathematician
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John Coates (naval architect)
John Francis Coates, OBE (30 March 1922 – 10 July 2010) was a British naval architect best known for his work on the study of construction of the Ancient Greek trireme. His research led to the construction of the first working replica of trirem ...
(1922–2010), British naval architect and historian
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John M. Coates
John Coates is a neuroscientist and applied physiologist working on the biology of risk taking. He was until 2016 research fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge. Before that he was a trader on Wall Street, working for ...
, neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge
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John Coates (politician)
John Coates (born 23 March 1944) is an Australian retired politician. Born in Melbourne, he was educated at the University of Sydney, after which he became a biochemist at the University of Tasmania. In 1972, he was elected to the Australian Hou ...
(born 1944), Australian senator for Tasmania
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John Coates (general)
Lieutenant General Henry John Coates, (28 December 1932 – 11 June 2018) was a senior officer in the Australian Army who served as Chief of the General Staff from 1990 to 1992. After retiring from the army, he became an author and a visiting f ...
(1932–2018), officer in the Australian Army
* John Coates (businessman) (born 1970), joint chief executive of online gambling company bet365 and joint chairman of Stoke City
See also
* John Coats (1906–1979), theosophist
* Jonathan Coates (born 1975), Welsh professional footballer
* John Coates Carter (1859–1927), English architect
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