John Noel Hillier (born 1944) is a former athlete who represented both England and Great Britain.^[2] John threw a PB of 59.76m on the 27th of July, 1976, in Edinburgh, Scotland.^[3]

John is currently an athletics coach, and has coached the likes of Myrtle Augee,^[4] Lawrence Okoye,^[5] Shaunagh Brown^[6] & Nicholas Percy.^[7]

John currently coaches a large number of athletes across a wide range of ages, currently the likes of Cleo Agyepong,^[8] Brydon Duncan ^[9] and Timi Babatunde ^[10] are under his guidance.

He represented England and won a bronze medal in the discus event, at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand.^[11][12] Four years later he represented England in the discus event, at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[13][14]