David Coleman

David Robert Coleman, OBE (26 April 1926 – 21 December 2013) was an English sports commentator and TV presenter who worked for the BBC for over 40 years. He covered eleven Summer Olympic Games from 1960 to 2000 and six football World Cups.

Coleman presented some of the BBC's leading sporting programmes, including Grandstand and Sportsnight, and was the host of A Question of Sport for 18 years. He retired from the BBC in 2000. Later that year he became the first broadcaster to receive the Olympic Order award, in recognition of his contribution to the Olympic movement.

Early life

Born in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, of Irish heritage (his immediate family hailed from County Cork), Coleman was a keen amateur runner. He competed as a schoolboy middle distance runner. In 1949, Coleman won the Manchester Mile as a member of Stockport Harriers, the only non-international runner to do so. He competed in the English National Cross-Country Championships for Manchester Athletic Club in 1952 (116th, 3rd team) and 1953 (118). He ran 440 yards (¼ mile) for Staffordshire. Injury eventually caused him to give up competitive running, and he later became president of the Wolverhampton & Bilston Athletics Club.

David Coleman (demographer)

David Coleman (born 1946) has been the Professor of Demography at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford since October 2002, and a lecturer since 1980.

Between 1985 and 1987 he worked for the British Government, as the Special Adviser to the Home Secretary, and then to the Ministers of Housing and of the Environment. He is a fellow of St John's College, Oxford.

He has published over 90 papers and eight books and was the joint editor of the European Journal of Population from 1992 to 2000. In 1997 he was elected to the Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He is also an advisor to Migration Watch UK which he helped to found, and is a member of the Galton Institute, formerly known as the Eugenics Society.

In 2013, Coleman's analysis said that White British people would be a minority in the UK by 2070 if current immigration trends continued.

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David Coleman (footballer, born 1942)

David John Coleman (born 27 March 1942) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League as a forward for Colchester United.

Career

Born in Colchester, Coleman began his career with local clubs Stanway Rovers and Harwich & Parkeston in non-league football before moving into the Football League with hometown club Colchester United.

Coleman made his debut on 18 November 1961 in a Fourth Division away tie at Rochdale, a game which the U's won 1–0. He would only make one more Football League appearance for Colchester, coming the following season on 20 October in a 4–1 defeat away to Wrexham, with Coleman scoring the solitary goal for Colchester.

After leaving Colchester, Coleman joined another local non-league club, Clacton Town.

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David Headley

David Coleman Headley (born Daood Sayed Gilani; 30 June 1960) is an American terrorist of Pakistani origin, and a spy who conspired with the Lashkar-e-Taiba in plotting the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

It has been alleged that Headley made periodic trips to Pakistan for Lashkar training while simultaneously working as an informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, but this is disputed. Under the direction of Lashkar chiefs, Headley performed five spying missions in Mumbai to scout targets for the attacks, which killed 168 people. The following year, he performed a similar mission in Copenhagen to help plan an attack against the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which had published cartoons of Muhammad. He was arrested at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago while on his way to Pakistan in October 2009.

The Indian public has followed Headley's story closely, considering him to be their equivalent of Osama bin Laden. U.S. authorities gave Indian investigators direct access to Headley, but some in India have questioned why the U.S. had not shared suspicions about him with Indian authorities before the Mumbai attacks. At the trial of Tahawwur Hussain Rana, an alleged co-conspirator, Headley gave detailed information about the participation of Pakistan's Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in carrying out the attacks. Since his arrest and guilty plea, Headley has cooperated with U.S. and Indian authorities and given information about his associates. On January 24, 2013, a U.S. federal court sentenced Headley to 35 years in prison for his role in the Mumbai attacks.

David Coleman (architect)

David Coleman, FAIA is an American architect. David was born in New York and studied fine arts and environmental design at Pratt Institute before taking up architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. He completed his studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. In 2011 David was elected to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows.

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David Coleman (disambiguation)

David Coleman (1926–2013) was a British sports commentator.

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David Coleman (Australian politician)

David Bernard Coleman (born 5 March 1974) is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Banks in New South Wales, since September 2013.

Early life and education

Coleman was born in Camden, a south-western suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. He attended primary school at Saint Thomas à Becket primary school in Lewisham; and completed his schooling at the Christian Brothers' High School, also in Lewisham. Coleman studied at the University of New South Wales, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws, and was president of the UNSW Student Guild in 1997.

Career

Before entering politics, Coleman worked for global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co, LookSmart, dStore, and since 2005, in a variety of roles for PBL Media and the Nine Network where he was the director of strategy and digital. Coleman entered Liberal preselection contests for Cook in 2007 and Bradfield in 2010; however was unsuccessful in receiving Liberal endorsement. Prior to his election to Parliament, Coleman held directorships with ninemsm Pty Liimited (2008-13), Australian News Channel Pty Limited (2008-13), and Yellow Brick Road Holdings Limited (2011-13).