Gordon Coventry was an Australian Rules Football player who played the full-forward position for the Collingwood Football Club in the great Collingwood teams of the 1920s and 1930s. He held the record for most career goals (1299) for 60 years, until it was broken by Tony Lockett. He was also the first man to kick 100 goals in a single season, and led the league in goalkicking 6 times, including 5 in a row between 1926 and 1930.

Gordon's brother Syd Coventry was also an excellent footballer, playing in the same teams as a ruckman, and also winning the Brownlow Medal in 1927.