Bert Salvatore Bonanno is an American track and field coach and sports administrator who has produced numerous Olympic champions and world-record holders.

At the height of the Cold War, and with the Olympic Games so close to the US border, the suspicious Central Intelligence Agency recruited Bonanno to provide information on the coaches they suspected were undercover agents.

[1] Other outstanding athletes training at SJCC were Andre Phillips, 1988 Olympic champion in hurdles, as well as throwers Mac Wilkins, Al Feuerbach and John Powell, all Olympians and world record holders.

[7] He also co-founded the Mercury News 10K Race[1] and served as meet director for the 1984 and 1987 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at San Jose City College.

[1] Bonanno, whose paternal and maternal grandparents emigrated from Italy, also received the Italian American Heritage Foundation Achievement Award in 2004.