Gordon Calvin Coleman (July 5, 1934 – March 12, 1994) was a Major League first baseman with the Cleveland Indians (1959) and the Cincinnati Reds (1960–1967). He helped the Reds win the 1961 National League pennant, and he has been inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame. In nine Major League seasons, he played in 773 games, with 98 home runs, 387 runs batted in, and a .273 batting average.

Gordy Coleman was born July 5, 1934, in Rockville, Maryland. He was a star athlete at Richard Montgomery High School, earning letters in baseball, football, basketball, and track. He was All-State in football, led the school's basketball team to the state finals his senior year, and in baseball he excelled as both a pitcher and a hitter.

He attended Duke University on a football scholarship, playing both baseball and football as a freshman.

Coleman was signed as an amateur free agent by the Cleveland Indians prior to the 1953 season at age 18 and assigned to the Reading Indians of the Eastern League. He was an outfielder until being converted to a first baseman in the spring of 1956.

He was out of baseball in 1957 and 1958 while serving in the U.S. Army at Fort McPherson, Georgia.

Returning to baseball in 1959, with the Indians' AA affiliate Mobile Bears of the Southern Association (for whom he had played in 1956), he won the Triple Crown with 30 home runs, 110 runs batted in and a .353 average, earning a promotion to the parent club.

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