John Coates (sports administrator)

John Dowling Coates is an Australian lawyer, sports administrator and businessman. He is a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) having served as a vice president from 2013 to 2017 and again since 2020, and is the former president of the Australian Olympic Committee and chairman of the Australian Olympic Foundation. Alongside these roles Coates is also the president of the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the International Council of Arbitration for Sport.

7 May 1950

Born on the same birth date (7 May 1950): Tim Russert

Born on the same birth day (7 May): Anne Marie Rafferty • Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery • Earl Thomas • Gene Wolfe • Jacques Viger (mayor) • Jesse Puljujärvi • John III of the Palatinate • Lisa Raitt • Sydney Leroux • Tim Russert • William A. MacCorkle

Born in the same month (May 1950): Andy Johns • Bertrand Delanoë • Dee Dee Bridgewater • Lou Gramm • Makis Dendrinos • Ray Condo • Reinaldo Merlo • Sadashiv Amrapurkar • Stevie Wonder • Tadeusz Ślusarski • Valeriya Novodvorskaya