Derek John Walker (born 15 June 1929, Blackburn Lancashire) is a British architect primarily associated with urban planning and leisure facilities architecture through his firm Derek Walker Associates. From 1970 to 1976, Walker was the first Chief Architect of the new town Milton Keynes, and head of Architecture at Royal College of Art^{[citation needed]}. With Stuart Mosscrop and Christopher Woodward, Walker designed the Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre, the first U.S.-style shopping centre in Britain.

From 1970-76 he was the first and only Chief Architect and Planner of the new city of Milton Keynes. He recruited an exceptionally talented team unique in the history of the New Towns movement, and over seven years produced a landscaping strategy for the new city, eleven village plans, the structure for the programme for producing 3000 houses per year with supporting community, leisure, retail and sporting and cultural facilities. Amongst many buildings of real unique quality possibly the most celebrated was the central Area Shopping Building. A unique concept at the time 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m²) with a plan generated around covered landscaped streets. The Close knit team for this complex included Stuart Mosscrop, Christopher Woodward and Syd Green.

Richard Kent is the secondary coach for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. He is a former college football player with a recent scouting and coaching career in NFL Europe. He most recently worked as defensive coordinator for the Amsterdam Admirals.

Richard Kent played for 16 successful years^{[citation needed]} in the collegiate ranks of American football at Appalachian State where he also earned his Bachelor of Science degree. Later on he earned his Masters degree at Clemson. During the last 10 years of his college career, he helped his teams achieve a win-loss record of 88-25-1.

Kent joined the football staff at Clemson as a graduate assistant in 1985. Over the years he has served at the following schools:

While he worked at Clemson, the Clemson Tigers played in two Bowl games and won the ACC Championship Game in 1986. Among the NFL players that Kent has coached over the years are Donnell Woolford, Delton Hall and Deems May.

Since 1999 Kent has been active as a coach in NFL Europe. He started at the Scottish Claymores where he served for 3 years (1999–2001), followed by defensive backs coach at Berlin Thunder (2002–2003), the Cologne Centurions (2004) and finally the Amsterdam Admirals (2005–present). In addition to his coaching duties, for several years Kent has worked closely in the off-season with NFLE Director of International Player and Game Development Tony Allen in scouting and developing home-grown prospects from around the world. In those years he helped lead Scotland (2000), Berlin (2002) and Amsterdam (2005) to the World Bowl championship game, which resulted in a victory for the latter two. During Amsterdam's World Bowl-winning 2005 season, the defense, under Kent, led NFL Europe in takeaways and interceptions.