People named Bates

• Alan Bates
  Alan Bates
  Sir Alan Arthur Bates CBE was an English actor, who came to prominence in the 1960s, a time of high creativity in British cinema, when he demonstrated his versatility in films ranging from the popular children’s story Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving...
  
   (1934–2003), British actor
• Albert Bates
  Albert Bates
  Albert Bates is an influential figure in the intentional community and ecovillage movements. A lawyer, author and teacher, he has been director of the Institute for Appropriate Technology since 1984 and of the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Summertown, Tennessee since 1994.Bates has...
  
  , U.S. environmentalist
• Allie Bates
  Allie Bates
  Allie Bates is an American award-winning short story writer who has also written Romance and Science Fiction novels and screenplays. She is also an English teacher and freelance editor.-Biography:...
  
  , U.S. magazine writer
• Angelique Bates
  Angelique Bates
  Angelique Bates is an American actress best known for the two seasons she served on the Nickelodeon sketch-comedy series All That.-Early career:...
  
  , American actress
• Anna Hannon Bates (1846–1886), Canadian of 7'5½"
• Arlo Bates
  Arlo Bates
  Arlo Bates was an American author, educator and newspaperman.-Biography:Arlo Bates was born at East Machias, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1876. In 1880 Bates became the editor of the Boston Sunday Courier and afterward became professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of...
  
   (1850–1918) Author and professor
  Professor
  A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
  
   at M.I.T.
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
  
  
• Arthur Laban Bates
  Arthur Laban Bates
  Arthur Laban Bates was a Republican U.S. Representative from the state of Pennsylvania.Arthur L. Bates was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He studied under tutors and was graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville in 1880. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882...
  
   (1859–1934), U.S. Representative
  United States House of Representatives
  The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
  
   from Massachusetts
  Massachusetts
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
  
  , 1901–1913
• Barbara Bates
  Barbara Bates
  Barbara Bates was an American actress best known for her role as Phoebe in the 1950 drama All About Eve.-Early life:...
  
  , U.S. actress
• Barrie Bates
  Barrie Bates
  Barrie Bates is a darts player currently residing in Bedlinog, Mid-Glamorgan. He plays in the Professional Darts Corporation and is a regular on the circuit. His nickname is "Batesy"....
  
  , Welsh darts player
• Benjamin E. Bates
  Benjamin E. Bates
  Benjamin Edward Bates was a New England industrialist and philanthropist, who was the namesake and a founder of Bates College and the Bates Mill in Lewiston, Maine.-Biography:...
  
   (1808–1878), philanthropist, founder of Bates College
  Bates College
  Bates College is a highly selective, private liberal arts college located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. and was most recently ranked 21st in the nation in the 2011 US News Best Liberal Arts Colleges rankings. The college was founded in 1855 by abolitionists...
  
   in Lewiston, Maine
• Bill Bates
  Bill Bates
  William Frederick Bates is a former American football safety in the National Football League who spent his entire career with the Dallas Cowboys.-Early years:...
  
  , U.S. player of American football
• Billy Bates
  Billy Bates
  Willie Bates, known as Billy was an English all-round cricketer. Excellent with both bat and ball, Bates scored over 10,000 first-class runs, took more than 870 wickets and was always reliable in the field...
  
  , English cricketer
• Blanche Bates
  Blanche Bates
  Blanche Bates was an American actress, born at Portland, Ore. She made her début in San Francisco in a benefit performance of Brander Matthews's This Picture and That. Among her early successes were her Mrs. Hillary in The Senator, Phyllis in The Charity Ball, and Nora in A Doll's House...
  
   (1873–1941) American stage actress
• Blaster Bates
  Blaster Bates
  Blaster Bates was the name used by Derek Macintosh Bates , an English explosives and demolition expert and raconteur, who was born in Crewe. He made a series of sound recordings from the 1960s to 1980s, recounting bizarre and funny experiences from his long career, and tales of his hobbies of...
  
  , British demolition expert
• Bob Bates, one of several people including
  • Bob Bates (bassist), first bassist of The Dave Brubeck Quartet
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet is an American jazz quartet, founded in 1951 by Dave Brubeck and originally featuring Paul Desmond on saxophone and Brubeck on piano...
    
    , 1951–1958
  • Bob Bates
    Bob Bates
    Robert Bates , better known as Bob Bates, is an American computer games designer. Starting as a designer in the 1980s for Infocom, he was later co-founder of Legend Entertainment, designing games such as Timequest and Eric the Unready...
    
     (born 1953), U.S. game designer
• Cary Bates
  Cary Bates
  Cary Bates is an American comic book, animation television and film writer.-Biography:Bates began submitting ideas for comic book covers to DC Comics at the age of 13, and a number of them were bought and published, the first as the cover to Superman #167...
  
  , American comic book writer
• Charlotte Fiske Bates
  Charlotte Fiske Bates
  Charlotte Fiske Bates was an American writer, born in New York City. She was the youngest of six children, and while she was still an infant her father, Hervey Bates, died, causing her mother, Eliza Endicott Bates, to relocate the family to Cambridge, Massachusetts...
  
   (1838- ? ) American author
• Clayton Peg Leg Bates
  Peg Leg Bates
  Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates was an Afro-American entertainer from Fountain Inn, South Carolina.Bates lost a leg at the age of 12 in a cotton gin accident. He subsequently taught himself to tap dance with a wooden peg leg...
  
   (1907–1998) American entertainer
• Daisy Bates, one of several people including
  • Daisy Bates
    Daisy Bates (actress)
    Daisy Bates is a British actress.She was born in London, the daughter of Ralph Bates and actress Virginia Wetherell and also the sister of actor & musician Will Bates...
    
    , British actress
  • Daisy Lee Gatson Bates
    Daisy Bates (civil rights activist)
    Daisy Lee Gatson Bates was an American civil rights activist, publisher and writer who played a leading role in the Little Rock integration crisis of 1957....
    
     (1914–1999), U.S. civil rights activist
  • Daisy May Bates
    Daisy Bates (Australia)
    Daisy May Bates, CBE was an Irish Australian journalist, welfare worker and lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society. She was known among the native people as 'Kabbarli' .-Early life:...
    
     (1863–1951), Australian journalist
• David Bates (disambiguation), one of several people including
  • David Bates
    David Bates (historian)
    Professor David Bates is a British historian.He was Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow from 1994 until 2003. He then took up the post of director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London between 2003 and 2008, and now holds a chair in Medieval...
    
    , historian, writer of books about William I of England and Odo of Bayeux
  • Sir David Bates
    David Bates (physicist)
    Sir David Robert Bates, FRS was an Irish mathematician and physicist.Born in Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, he moved to Belfast with his family in 1925, attending the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He enrolled with the Queen's University of Belfast in 1934...
    
     (born 1916), physicist winner of the 1970 Hughes Medal
  • David Bates
    David Bates (poet)
    David Bates was an American poet.He was born in Indian Hill, Ohio and educated in Buffalo before working in first Indianapolis then Philadelphia. In 1849, he published a volume of poetry, Eolian....
    
     (1809–1870), U.S. poet
• Dick Bates
  Dick Bates
  Charles Richard Bates is an American former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He was signed by the Kansas City Athletics before the season. After that, Bates also spent time in the Washington Senators organization, and was later drafted by the Seattle Pilots from the Senators as the...
  
   (born 1945), Major League Baseball pitcher
• D'Wayne Bates
  D'Wayne Bates
  D'Wayne L. Bates is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League. Bates played three seasons with the Chicago Bears and two with the Minnesota Vikings...
  
  , U.S. player of American football
• Edward Bates
  Edward Bates
  Edward Bates was a U.S. lawyer and statesman. He served as United States Attorney General under Abraham Lincoln from 1861 to 1864...
  
   (1793–1869), U.S. jurist and policitian, candidate for US President, 1860, and US Attorney General, 1861–1864
• Elizabeth Bates
  Elizabeth Bates
  Elizabeth Bates was a Professor of psychology and cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego...
  
   (1947–2003)
• Evan Bates
  Evan Bates
  Evan Bates is an American ice dancer. With former partner Emily Samuelson, he is the 2009 U.S. silver medalist, the 2009 Four Continents bronze medalist, and the 2008 World Junior Champion. He currently skates with Madison Chock....
  
  , American ice dancer
• Frederick Bates
  Frederick Bates
  Frederick Bates , older brother of Edward Bates and James Woodson Bates, was an American attorney and politician. He was elected in 1824 as the second governor of Missouri and died in office in 1825...
  
   (1777–1825), U.S. jurist and politician
• George Joseph Bates (1891–1949), U.S. Representative
  United States House of Representatives
  The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
  
   from Massachusetts
  Massachusetts
  The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
  
  , 1937–1949
• Gilbert Bates
  Gilbert Bates
  Gilbert Henderson Bates was an American soldier best known for his peaceful postwar march throughout the American south....
  
   (1836–1917), Wisconsin Civil War veteran
• Guy Bates
  Guy Bates
  Guy Bates is an English footballer who plays for Black Bull FC in the Meath & District League.-Career:Bates joined his hometown club Newcastle United at the age of 8 in 1993...
  
  , English footballer
• H. E. Bates
  H. E. Bates
  Herbert Ernest Bates, CBE , better known as H. E. Bates, was an English writer and author. His best-known works include Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May, and My Uncle Silas.-Early life:...
  
   (Herbert Ernest Bates), English writer and author
• Harry Bates, one of several people including
  • Harry Bates (sculptor)
    Harry Bates (sculptor)
    Harry Bates A.R.A. , English sculptor, was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. Bates was elected to the Royal Academy in 1892 as A.R.A. and was an active, if intermittent, member of the Art Workers Guild. He was a central figure in the British movement known as the New Sculpture...
    
    , British sculptor
  • Harry Bates (author)
    Harry Bates (author)
    Harry Bates was an American science fiction editor and writer. His 1940 short story "Farewell to the Master" was the basis of the well-known 1951 science fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.-Biography:Harry Bates was born Hiram Gilmore Bates III on October 9, 1900 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
    
    , U.S. science fiction writer
• Henry Bates, one of several people including
  • Henry Bates (politician), U.S. politician
  • Henry Moore Bates
    Henry Moore Bates
    Henry Moore Bates was an American lawyer. He was dean of the University of Michigan Law School for 29 years....
    
     (1860- ? ) American lawer and president of the Order of the Coif
    Order of the Coif
    The Order of the Coif is an honor society for United States law school graduates. A student at an American law school who earns a Juris Doctor degree and graduates in the top 10 percent of his or her class is eligible for membership if the student's law school has a chapter of the...
    
    
  • Henry Walter Bates
    Henry Walter Bates
    Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection in a shipwreck...
    
     (1825–1892), British zoologist
• Isaac Chapman Bates (1779–1845), U.S. Representative, 1827–1835, and U.S. Senator 1841-1845, from Massachusetts
• James Bates (disambiguation), one of several people including
  • Jamie Bates (footballer), English football player
  • Jamie Bates (ice hockey)
    Jamie Bates (ice hockey)
    Jamie Bates is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for the San Antonio Rampage in the American Hockey League....
    
    , Canadian ice hockey player
• Jamie Bates (disambiguation), one of several people including
  • James Woodson Bates
    James Woodson Bates
    James Woodson Bates was an American lawyer and statesman from Sebastian County, Arkansas. He represented the Arkansas Territory as a delegate to the U.S. Congress. He served in 1828 as a judge of the superior court of the territory...
    
     (1788–1846), U.S. jurist and politician
  • James T. Bates
    James T. Bates
    James T. Bates was an American businessman who founded the daily newspaper Tribune de Genève on 1 February 1879....
    
     (1844–1914), American business man
• Jason Bates
  Jason Bates
  Jason Charles Bates is a former Major League Baseball infielder who played a total of four seasons, spanning from 1995-1998. Bates played his final game on September 27, 1998, as a member of the Colorado Rockies....
  
  , U.S. player of American football
• Jeanne Bates
  Jeanne Bates
  Jeanne Bates was an American radio, film and television actress. She signed a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1942 which began her career in films both in bit parts and larger roles.-Career:...
  
  , U.S. actress
• Jeff Bates
  Jeff Bates
  Jeffery Wayne "Jeff" Bates is an American country music artist. Signed to RCA Records in 2003, Bates released his debut album Rainbow Man that year. A second album, Leave the Light On, was released in 2005 on RCA. He left RCA in 2006. This album was followed by Jeff Bates in 2008 on the...
  
  , U.S. country singer
• Jeremy Bates, one of several people including
  • Jeremy Bates (American football coach), American football coach
  • Jeremy Bates (boxer)
    Jeremy Bates (boxer)
    Jeremy Bates is an American heavyweight boxer. Nicknamed "The Beast", Bates was a moderately successful fighter who fought several other journeyman fighters of his era...
    
    , American boxer
  • Jeremy Bates (tennis player), British tennis player
• Jim Bates (disambiguation), one of several people including
  • Jim Bates (politician), (born 1941), U.S. Representative from California, 1983–91
  • Jim Bates
    Jim Bates (American football coach)
    Jim Bates is a former American football coach in the National Football League, most recently serving as defensive coordinator of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He primarily ran a 4-3 scheme, using fast, undersized linebackers...
    
    , U.S. coach of American football
• John Bates (disambiguation), one of several people including
  • John Bates (fashion designer), who designed Diana Rigg's clothes in The Avengers.
  • Big John Bates
    Big John Bates
    Big John Bates began recording for Germany's Rookie Records and Glitterhouse Records in 2010 with upright bassist Brandy Bones. They moved away from their original punkabilly style to follow their rustic, southern influences with dark, rural lyrics & melodies...
    
    , Vancouver-based Americana guitarist
  • John Bates (SDP)
    John Bates (SDP)
    John Bates is the head of the British Social Democratic Party, holding the title of President.He replaced Jack Holmes as President in 1991 - who had himself replaced, the then Leader, David Owen.He is based in Morecambe, Lancashire.-References:...
    
    , former president of the UK Social Democratic Party.
  • John Coalter Bates
    John C. Bates
    John Coalter Bates was Chief of Staff of the United States Army from January to April 1906. He was the last American Civil War veteran still on active duty in the United States military at the time of his retirement....
    
     (1842–1919), U.S. general and army chief of staff 1906.
  • John Lewis Bates (1859–1946), U.S. political figure and governor of Massachusetts 1903-1905.
  • Johnny Bates (baseball player)
    Johnny Bates (baseball player)
    John William "Johnny" Bates , is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He played nine seasons in the majors from until...
    
     (1882–1949), baseball player.
• Joseph Bates, one of several people including
  • Joseph Bates
    Joseph E. Bates
    Joseph E. Bates was brought up in Muskegon County, Michigan and moved to Denver, Colorado in 1860 where he became involved in working for various businesses. He became active in city politics being elected a city councillor in 1868...
    
    , 19th-century mayor of Denver, Colorado
  • Joseph Bates
    Joseph Bates (Adventist)
    Joseph Bates was an American seaman and revivalist minister. He was the founder and developer of Sabbatarian Adventism, a strain of religious thinking that evolved into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Bates is also credited with convincing James White and Ellen G...
    
     (1792–1872), U.S. Adventist and health reformist
• Joshua Bates, one of several people including
  • Joshua Bates
    Joshua Bates
    Joshua Bates was an American educator and clergyman. He was the third president of Middlebury College.Born in Cohasset, Massachusetts, he was the son of Zealous and Abigail Bates. Bates graduated from Harvard College in 1800. He became a special student in divinity at Phillips Academy, serving as...
    
     (1776–1854) American minister and teacher
  • Joshua Bates
    Joshua Bates (financier)
    Joshua Bates was an international financier who divided his life between the United States and the United Kingdom.Bates was born in Commercial St., Weymouth, Massachusetts. Early in his career he worked for William Gray, owner of Gray's Wharf in Charlestown. A merchant and a banker, in 1828 Bates...
    
     (1788–1864) Benefactor of Boston Public Library
    Boston Public Library
    The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was the first publicly supported municipal library in the United States, the first large library open to the public in the United States, and the first public library to allow people to...
    
    
  • Joshua Hall Bates
    Joshua Hall Bates
    Joshua Hall Bates was a lawyer, politician, and general in the Union Army during the early part of the American Civil War...
    
     (1817–1908), American Civil War general
• Katharine Lee Bates
  Katharine Lee Bates
  Katharine Lee Bates was an American songwriter. She is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful". She popularized "Mrs. Santa Claus" through her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride .-Life and career:Bates was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, the daughter of a...
  
   (1859–1929), U.S. poet
• Kathy Bates
  Kathy Bates
  Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates is an American actress and director.After several small roles in film and television, Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery , for which she won both the Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe...
  
   (born 1948), U.S. actor
• Ken Bates
  Ken Bates
  Kenneth William Bates is a British businessman and football executive. The current chairman and now owner of Leeds United AFC, Bates was previously chairman and majority shareholder of Chelsea FC from 1982 until 2003....
  
  , chairman of Chelsea F.C. from the early 1980s until 2003
• Lindon Wallace Bates
  Lindon Wallace Bates
  Lindon Wallace Bates was an American civil engineer, born at Marshfield, Vt., and educated at Yale College. After the completion of engineering studies he was appointed assistant engineer for the Northern Pacific and Oregon Pacific railways, and subsequently was contracting engineer or manager of...
  
   (1858–1924) Civil engineer
  Civil engineer
  A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...
  
   who designed the "three-lakes" of the Panama Canal
  Panama Canal
  The Panama Canal is a ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. Built from 1904 to 1914, the canal has seen annual traffic rise from about 1,000 ships early on to 14,702 vessels measuring a total of 309.6...
  
  
• L.C. Bates
• Leon Bates (pianist)
• Leon Bates (American labor leader) (1899–1972), UAW Union Organizer
• Leonard Bates
  Leonard Bates
  Leonard Thomas Ashton Bates was an English cricketer. He was a right-hand batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler who played for Warwickshire....
  
   (1895–1971), English cricketer
• Mario Bates
  Mario Bates
  Mario Doniel Bates was an American football running back in the NFL for the New Orleans Saints, Arizona Cardinals, and the Detroit Lions. His brother, Michael also played in the NFL.-References:...
  
  , U.S. player of American football
• Marston Bates
  Marston Bates
  Marston Bates was an American zoologist. Bates' studies on mosquitoes contributed to the understanding of the epidemiology of yellow fever in northern South America....
  
  , U.S. zoologist
• Martin Bates, one of several people including
  • Martin Van Buren Bates
    Martin Van Buren Bates
    Martin Van Buren Bates , known as the "Kentucky Giant" among other nicknames, was a Civil War-era American famed for his incredibly large size....
    
     (1837–1919), U.S. politician
  • Martin W. Bates
    Martin W. Bates
    Martin Waltham Bates was a lawyer and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, and then the Democratic Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Senator from Delaware.-Early life and family:Bates was born in Salisbury, Connecticut...
    
     (1786–1869), U.S. Senator from Delaware
• Matthew Bates
  Matthew Bates
  Matthew David Bates is an English professional football player and captain of Middlesbrough. He plays in central defence, however is equally adept at playing right-back or defensive midfield.-Career:...
  
  , English footballer
• Maxwell Bates
  Maxwell Bates
  Maxwell Bates, CM was a Canadian architect and expressionist painter.Born in Calgary, Alberta in 1906, Bates started painting at an early age; his piece In the Kitchen was painted when he was 15 years old. As a young adult, he worked for his father's architecture firm...
  
  , Canadian architect and artist
• Michael Bates (disambiguation), one of several people (link to disambiguation page)
• Mick Bates, English footballer
• Mick Bates
  Mick Bates (politician)
  Mick Bates is an Independent Liberal Democrat politician. He was Member of the National Assembly for Wales for Montgomeryshire between 1999 and 2011.-Background:...
  
  , Welsh politician
• Morris Bates
  Morris Bates
  Joseph Morris Bates , usually known as Morris Bates, was an English footballer.Bates first played as an amateur for Nottingham Forest, before moving south to London to take up work at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich...
  
  , English footballer
• Nicholas James Bates, British musician known as Nick Rhodes
• Paddy Roy Bates
  Paddy Roy Bates
  - Titles and styles :*2 September 1967–present: His Royal Highness the Prince of Sealand- Full title as Prince :His Royal Highness Roy Bates, Prince of Sealand- References :...
  
   (born c. 1922), pirate radio broadcaster and Sealand founder
• Paul L. Bates
  Paul L. Bates
  Paul Levern Bates served a distinguished and decorated career in the United States Army, which most notably included commanding the first black tank battalion to enter combat in World War II, however he also gained notoriety as the white colonel who refused to court-martial future Baseball Hall of...
  
   (1908–1994), Colonel, United States Army
• Phil Bates
  Phil Bates
  Phil Bates has been a member of many notable bands including Trickster and Quill, and was the lead guitarist, songwriter and joint lead vocalist for ELO Part II from 1993 through to 1999....
  
  , guitarist and vocalist with the Orchestra
  The Orchestra
  The Orchestra is a rock band formed by former members of the Electric Light Orchestra and ELO Part II. It is the continuation of ELO Part II following Bev Bevan's departure and selling of the rights to Jeff Lynne.-History:...
  
   (former members of ELO and ELO Part II)
• Ralph Bates, one of several people including
  • Ralph Bates
    Ralph Bates (writer)
    Ralph Bates was an English novelist. He is best known for his writings on pre–Civil War Spain.-Life:Bates was born in Swindon, England in 1899 and as a teenager worked at the Great Western Railway factory...
    
     (1899–2000), English writer
  • Ralph Bates
    Ralph Bates
    Ralph Bates was an English film and television actor, known for his role in the British sitcom Dear John and for being one of Hammer Horror's best-known actors from the latter period of the company....
    
     (1940–1991), English actor
• Robert Bates
  Robert Bates
  Robert Hinrichs Bates is an American political scientist. He is Eaton Professor of the Science of Government in the Departments of Government and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Since 2000, he has also served as Professeur associe, School of Economics, University of...
  
  , U.S. political economist
• onald Bates (1932–1986) New York City Ballet production stage manager
• Samuel Penniman Bates
  Samuel Penniman Bates
  Samuel Penniman Bates was an American educator, author, and historian. He is noted for his reference works on the American Civil War, including his multi-volume which remains the standard reference for the commonwealth's regimental histories and unit rosters.Bates was born in Mendon,...
  
   (1827–1902) American educator
• Shawn Bates
  Shawn Bates
  Shawn William Bates is an American professional ice hockey center and is currently a free agent. He previously played in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins and New York Islanders.- College :...
  
  , U.S. hockey player
• Sidney Bates
  Sidney Bates
  Sidney Bates VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
   (1921–1944), British soldier
• Simon Bates
  Simon Bates
  Simon Bates is a UK disc jockey and radio presenter. Between 1976 and 1993 he worked at BBC Radio 1, presenting the station's weekday mid-morning show for most of this period. He later became a regular presenter on Classic FM...
  
   (born 1947), British radio presenter
• Stuart 'Pinkie' Bates
  Stuart 'Pinkie' Bates
  Stuart 'Pinkie' Bates is a musician notable for playing the Hammond organ with Neil Hannon's band, The Divine Comedy. Bates was the band's organ player on all of The Divine Comedy's records from Casanova to Regeneration...
  
  , Hammond organ player
• Ted Bates
  Ted Bates (footballer)
  Edric Thornton "Ted" Bates MBE was a former Southampton F.C. player, manager, director and president which earned him the sobriquet Mr. Southampton.-Playing career:...
  
   (1918–2003), English footballer
• Thomas Bates
  Thomas Bates
  Thomas Bates was a member of the group of provincial English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.Bates was born at Lapworth in Warwickshire, and became a retainer to Robert Catesby, who from 1604 planned to kill King James I by blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder, and...
  
   (died 30 January 1606), a key conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot
  Gunpowder Plot
  The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby.The plan was to blow up the House of...
  
   of 1605.
• Tom Bates
  Tom Bates
  Thomas H. Bates is an American politician and is currently serving as the Mayor of Berkeley, California. He previously served 20 years as a member of the California State Assembly before being termed out in 1996. Bates is married to Loni Hancock, a former mayor of Berkeley and State Assembly...
  
  , U.S. politician
• Tyler Bates
  Tyler Bates
  Tyler Bates is a music producer and composer for films. His most known work includes "The Hangman's Song" and various other tracks from the zombie horror film Dawn of the Dead, and 2008's Day of the Dead...
  
  , U.S. musician
• Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller
  Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller
  Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller , born Tryphosa Duncan Bates, was an American socialite, club woman and concert singer...
  
  , U.S. singer
• William Bates, one of several people including
  • William Henry Bates (1917–1969), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1949–1970
  • William Horatio Bates, creator of the "Bates Method
    Bates Method
    The Bates method is an alternative therapy aimed at improving eyesight. Eye-care physician William Horatio Bates attributed nearly all sight problems to habitual strain of the eyes, and felt that glasses were harmful and never necessary...
    
     for Better Eyesight"

Fictional people

• Amy Bates (from Tom, Amy, and Pattie Bates), a character in Dennis Potter's play Brimstone and Treacle
  Brimstone and Treacle
  -Potter on Brimstone and Treacle:In 1978, Potter said:I had written Brimstone and Treacle in difficult personal circumstances. Years of acute psoriatic arthropathy—unpleasantly affecting skin and joints—had not only taken their toll in physical damage but had also, and perhaps inevitably, mediated...
  
  
• Bates, a character in Stargate
• Johnny Bates (comics), a character in Marvel Comics
• Joshua T. Bates
  Joshua T. Bates
  Joshua T. Bates is a fictional character of the series Joshua T. Bates by Susan Shreve. His enemies are mentioned in all books and include Tommy Wilhelm and Billy Nickels, who torment Joshua. Joshua has an older sister named Amanda, who was formerly Ms. Smarty Pants but now she's no longer smart...
  
  , a character of Susan Shreve
• Nigel Bates
  Nigel Bates
  Nigel Bates is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Paul Bradley from 1992 to 1998. Introduced in 1992 by Leonard Lewis, the character was incorporated gradually and brought back as a regular following a brief stint due to a popular reception. He was depicted as a...
  
  , a character from EastEnders
• Norman Bates
  Norman Bates
  Norman Bates is a fictional character created by writer Robert Bloch as the central character in his novel Psycho, and portrayed by Anthony Perkins as the main antagonist of the 1960 film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock...
  
  , a character from Psycho
• Pattie Bates (from Tom, Amy, and Pattie Bates), a character in Dennis Potter's play Brimstone and Treacle
  Brimstone and Treacle
  -Potter on Brimstone and Treacle:In 1978, Potter said:I had written Brimstone and Treacle in difficult personal circumstances. Years of acute psoriatic arthropathy—unpleasantly affecting skin and joints—had not only taken their toll in physical damage but had also, and perhaps inevitably, mediated...
  
  
• Tom Bates (from Tom, Amy, and Pattie Bates), a character in Dennis Potter's play Brimstone and Treacle
  Brimstone and Treacle
  -Potter on Brimstone and Treacle:In 1978, Potter said:I had written Brimstone and Treacle in difficult personal circumstances. Years of acute psoriatic arthropathy—unpleasantly affecting skin and joints—had not only taken their toll in physical damage but had also, and perhaps inevitably, mediated...
  
  
• Eric Bates (from Eric, U.S. Bates, and Fancy Bates), a character in the movie "The Toy"
• Mr John Bates, a character from Downton Abbey
  Downton Abbey
  Downton Abbey is a British television period drama series, produced by NBC Universal-owned British media company Carnival Films for the ITV network. The series is set during the late Edwardian era and the First World War on the fictional estate of Downton Abbey in Yorkshire, and features an...
  
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