Donald Cuthbert Coleman (21 January 1920 – 3 September 1995) was a British economic historian.^[1][2]

After attendingThe Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, an independent school inElstree in Hertfordshire, Coleman served in theRoyal Artillery in Africa, Italy and Greece duringWorld War II, reaching the rank of major.^[2] He gained his first degree and PhD at theLondon School of Economics and was appointed to a post there of Lecturer in Industrial History in 1951. He stayed at LSE as Reader and (1969–1971) Professor of Economic History, and then moved to theUniversity of Cambridge as Professor of Economic History and Fellow ofPembroke College in 1971, taking early retirement in 1981 to concentrate on his scholarly work. He was editor of theEconomic History Review 1967–72.^[1]

The annualColeman Prize of the Association of Business Historians is named in his memory.^[3]

• The British paper industry, 1495–1860 : a study in industrial growth (1958,Clarendon)^[4]
• Sir John Banks, Baronet and Businessman: a Study of Business, Politics and Society in Later Stuart England (1963, Clarendon)^[5] (onSir John Banks, 1st Baronet)
• Courtaulds: an economic and social history (onCourtaulds)
  • Vol 1:The nineteenth century: silk and crape (1969, Clarendon)
  • Vol 2:Rayon (1969, Clarendon)
  • Vol 3:Crisis and change, 1940–1965 (1980, Clarendon,ISBN 0199201110)
• The Economy of England, 1450–1750 (1977,Oxford UP,ISBN 0192153552)

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