Henry Alfred Gordon, CMG, AM (9 November 1925 – 21 January 2015) was an Australian journalist, war correspondent, author, and historian of the Olympic Games.
During his journalistic career, he served as editor of The Sun News-Pictorial, and editor-in-chief of The Herald and Weekly Times and Queensland Newspapers.
[1] Gordon began his journalistic career as a teenager, working as a copyboy for The Daily Telegraph when he was 16.
[6] In addition to his own newspaper, his war reports were published in the Adelaide Advertiser, The West Australian and The Courier-Mail.
[9] Gordon played a major role in the naming of streets around the 1956 Melbourne and 2000 Sydney Olympic precincts.
Together, they had three children; Sally, Michael and John, who all followed Harry into the media (Michael into journalism, John as a news and sports cameraman, and Sally as make-up artist for film and television).