Gordon Colling (10 March 1933 – 4 June 2011) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party politician.
Born in Sunderland to a family heavily involved in the Labour Party—both of his parents were councillors—Colling completed National Service with the Royal Air Force and was elected as secretary of Sunderland Trades Council. He studied at Ruskin College but left early in 1960 after being involved in a car crash that left him with a permanent limp.
Colling worked as a linotype operator and was active in the Typographical Association. He moved to Manchester to become a full-time union employee, and when the Typographical Association merged into the National Graphical Association in 1965, he moved again to Bedford to remain on its staff as National Political Officer.
In Bedford, Colling was elected as a Labour councillor, later becoming group leader. He also served as secretary of Bedford Trades Council and stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in Bedford at the February 1974 general election. In 1985, he was elected to Labour's National Executive Committee, supported by both the left and right wings of the party, although he identified as a moderate and acted as a whip for right-wingers on the committee. In 1994–1995, he served as Chair of the Labour Party.
