David Coates may refer to: David Coates (footballer) (born 1935), English footballer David C. Coates (1868–1933), Lieutenant Governor of Colorado Sir David Charlton Frederick Coates, 3rd Baronet (born 1948), of the Coates baronets David Coates (diplomat) (born 1947), British diplomat and scholar David Coates (political economist) (1946–2018), British academic