J. Winston Coleman (November 5, 1898 – May 4, 1983) was an American tobacco farmer, contractor, newspaper columnist, historian, book collector, and bibliographer who specialized in the study of 19th-century Kentucky, United States.
[2] He wrote a newspaper column on Kentucky historical topics for 20 years.
[2] A lifelong resident of Lexington, Coleman owned Winburn Farm from 1936 until his death.
[3] There was an exhibit of "slave lore" collected by Coleman at the University of Kentucky in 1940.
[5] In the late 1960s he donated "3,500 books and pamphlets," scrapbooks, photographs, "Kentucky church histories, maps, atlases, personal correspondence and manuscripts" to Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.