Robert George Hindmarch CM OBC (May 27, 1930 – February 20, 2021) was a Canadian educator, sports administrator and ice hockey coach.

He developed additional international sporting relationships for the Thunderbirds in South Korea and Japan, and served as vice-president of the Canadian Olympic Association for 16 years.

[notes 1] Hindmarch participated in numerous sports as a youth including baseball, hockey, lacrosse, soccer, swimming and track and field.

[5] His doctoral thesis was Significance of physique, maturational, body size, strength, motor ability and reaction time characteristics of eight year old boys.

[4][5][7] He supported Father David Bauer when he established a permanent Canada men's national ice hockey team based at the Point Grey Campus of UBC.

Hindmarch served as general manager and assistant coach of the team which placed fourth in ice hockey at the 1964 Winter Olympics.

The team initially struggled for funding and he occasionally donated money from his own pocket to feed the starving student athletes.

[4][5] In December 1973, they became one of the first Western Bloc sports teams to tour China, and played a series of games focused on friendship and sharing hockey skills with local players.

[2][5] Hindmarch was an advisor to Rick Hansen in planning the Man in Motion Tour in 1985, and served as chairman of the Expo 86 sports committee.

Kevin Hanson felt that Hindmarch "was more concerned about people representing UBC that night and the traditions then anything else", and that "he want[ed] us to make sure that we feel like we're a part of it".