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Graham Reid (born April 9, 1964 in Redcliffe, Queensland) is a former field hockey defender and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the silver medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Afterwards he played club hockey for the Dutch top team Amsterdam for two seasons (1993, 1994) returning in 1995 to play the Europa cup.
Reid played 130 internationals for Australia including two Olympic Games (1988, 1992), one World Cup (1990) and nine Champions Trophys (1984, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, and 92). He has also won the Olympians medal (WA Best and Fairest medal) 3 times (1995, 96, and 98) whilst playing for Victoria Park Xavier.
He was also an inaugural member of the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) hockey unit in Perth, Western Australia, 1984 and despite stints back in Queensland and Amsterdam has remained in Perth, where he lives with his wife and two children.
Graham Reid (born 1945) is a teacher and playwright from Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Born into a working class family, Reid married young, but returned to education and graduated from Queen's University in 1976. He became a teacher at Gransha Boys' High School in Bangor, County Down but left in 1980 to concentrate on his writing career.
Characters in his work The Hidden Curriculum were based on pupils and teachers from the school he taught at. He went on to write a trio of BBC plays for the Play for Today series. These include Too Late to Talk to Billy in 1982, A Matter of Choice for Billy in 1983 and A Coming to Terms for Billy in 1984. They were colloquially known as The Billy Plays. The plays starred a young Kenneth Branagh, who had previously worked in his futuristic play Easter 2016, which was screened as part of the BBC's Play for Tomorrow series. In 1992 he wrote a screen play for the movie You, Me & Marley







