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The Gates family refers to the members of Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates' family and relatives who include:* William John Gates, his paternal great-grandfather* Rebecca Eppinhauser, his paternal great-grandmother...
of Seattle, Washington. Members of this family include:
- Bill GatesBill GatesWilliam Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
(born 1955), Chairman of Microsoft - Melinda GatesMelinda GatesMelinda Ann French , later known as Melinda French Gates, is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the wife of Bill Gates...
(born 1964), American philanthropist, wife of Bill Gates- The Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationBill & Melinda Gates FoundationThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It is "driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family"...
, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- William H. Gates, Sr.William H. Gates, Sr.William Henry Gates, Sr. is a retired American attorney and philanthropist and author of the book Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime. He is the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.-Life and career:Gates was born in Bremerton, Washington, to William Henry Gates I or Sr...
, retired attorney and philanthropist, Bill's father - Mary Maxwell GatesMary Maxwell GatesMary Maxwell Gates was an American businessperson. Gates served 18 years on the University of Washington board of regents...
, American philanthropist, Bill's mother - Mimi Gardner GatesMimi Gardner GatesMary 'Mimi' Gates is an American art historian who is the recent Director of the Seattle Art Museum. She married William H. Gates, Sr., father of Bill Gates, in 1996.Gates has a B.A...
, American art historian, William Sr.'s second wife
Athletes
- Antonio GatesAntonio GatesAntonio Gates is an American football tight end for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League. He was signed as an undrafted free agent in 2003 after playing college basketball at Kent State University...
, American professional football player - Brent GatesBrent GatesBrent Robert Gates is a former Major League Baseball second and third baseman. He is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota....
, American professional baseball player - Lionel GatesLionel GatesLionel Theron Gates is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He was originally drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL Draft...
, American professional football player - Mathew GatesMathew GatesMathew Gates is a former American ice dancer. He twice won silver at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships with Eve Chalom. After that partnership ended, he teamed up with Emilie Nussear in 2002, and the duo competed at Nationals in 2003. Mathew currently works as a coach and choreographer...
, American figure skater - William Pop GatesPop GatesWilliam "Pop" Gates was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Decatur, Alabama and attended high school in New York, New York. After playing college basketball at Clark Atlanta University, he continued his basketball career in New York City with the Harlem Renaissance, for...
, member of the Harlem Globetrotters
Civil servants
- Artemus GatesArtemus GatesArtemus Lamb Gates was an American businessman, naval aviator, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air in charge of naval aviation efforts in World War II . He also was briefly Undersecretary of the Navy...
, American financier and Undersecretary of the Navy during World War II - Charles W. GatesCharles W. GatesCharles Winslow Gates was an American politician who served as the 55th Governor of the U.S. state of Vermont from 1915 to 1917.-Sources:*...
(1856-1927), 20th century governor of Vermont - Daryl GatesDaryl GatesDaryl Gates was the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1978 to 1992.-Early life:...
, Los Angeles police chief - Ralph F. GatesRalph F. GatesRalph Fesler Gates was the 37th Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1945 to 1949. A lawyer and veteran of World War I, he is credited with returning his party to power after the Ku Klux Klan scandal in late 1920s that led to years of Democratic dominance of the state government during the...
, onetime governor of Indiana - Robert GatesRobert GatesDr. Robert Michael Gates is a retired civil servant and university president who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011. Prior to this, Gates served for 26 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, and under President George H. W....
, former president of Texas A&M, former CIA director, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense - Seth Merrill GatesSeth Merrill GatesSeth Merrill Gates was an American lawyer, born at Winfield, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1827, and was a member of the State Assembly in 1832. A Whig, he was an antislavery member of the twenty-sixth and twenty seventh U. S. Congresses from 1839 to 1843. In 1843 he drafted the protest...
, 19th century American politician - Several men named Thomas GatesThomas GatesThomas Gates may refer to:*Sir Thomas Gates , of the Virginia Company, an early leader and governor of the Colony of Virginia*Thomas Sovereign Gates , U.S. educator, first president of the University of Pennsylvania...
:- Sir Thomas Gates (governor)Thomas Gates (governor)Sir Thomas Gates , followed George Percy as governor of Jamestown, the English colony of Virginia . Percy, through inept leadership, was responsible for the lives lost during the period called the Starving Time...
(1585-1621), Governor of colonial Virginia - Thomas Sovereign Gates, Sr. (1873-1948), American banker and university president
- Thomas S. Gates, Jr. (1906-1983), American politician
- Sir Thomas Gates (governor)
Other people
- Bill Gates (frontiersman)Bill Gates (frontiersman)"Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Peru in 1935 pursuing a silver strike....
, a participant in the Klondike Gold Rush - Charles Gates, Jr.Charles Gates, Jr.Charles Cassius Gates, Jr. was a businessman and philanthropist. His father, Charles Gates Sr., bought Colorado Tire & Leather for $3,500 in 1911. The company was renamed The Gates Rubber Company in 1919. It became world's largest non-tire rubber manufacturer. Charles Gates Jr. took over in 1961,...
, of the Gates Rubber Company - Christopher T. GatesChristopher T. GatesChristopher T. Gates is the Executive Director of Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement . PACE is an affinity group of the Council on Foundations and works as a learning collaborative of funders who are working in the fields of civic engagement and democratic renewal. Prior to this, Gates served...
, American philanthropist - Crawford GatesCrawford GatesCrawford Gates is a musician, composer, and conductor known for his contributions to the body of LDS music.- Early life :Gates was born in San Francisco, December 1921, and grew up in Palo Alto, California.-Family:...
, American composer and musician - David GatesDavid GatesDavid Gates is an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the group Bread, which reached the tops of the musical charts in Europe and North America on several occasions in the 1970s. The band was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame...
(born 1940), singer-songwriter - David Gates (author)David Gates (author)David Gates is an American journalist and novelist. His first novel, Jernigan , about a dysfunctional one-parent family, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. This was followed by a second novel, Preston Falls , and a short story collection, The Wonders of the Invisible World...
(born 1947), author-journalist - Debbie GatesDebbie GatesDebbie Gates is a UK television writer and producer. She specialised in children's stories told on location by actors taking the parts of various characters without costumes, make-up or props. She is best known for writing and producing Tales From Fat Tulip's Garden, broadcast by ITV in May and...
, British television writer-producer - Deborah GatesDeborah GatesDeborah Gates is an American actress and director who founded the acting company Shakespeare at Play in Los Angeles, California that specializes in abridged versions of Shakespeare’s works for young audiences...
, American actress - Frederick Taylor GatesFrederick Taylor GatesFrederick Taylor Gates was an American Baptist clergyman, educator, and the principal business and philanthropic advisor to the major oil industrialist and philanthropist John D...
, American Baptist minister and advisor to the Rockefeller family - Gareth GatesGareth GatesGareth Paul Gates , is an English singer-songwriter. He was the runner-up in the first series of the ITV talent show Pop Idol. Gates has sold over 3.5 million records in the UK alone. He is also known for having a stutter, and has talked about his speech impediment publicly...
, British pop musician - Giacomo GatesGiacomo GatesGiacomo Gates is an American jazz vocalist. He works to interpret old jazz standards, practices vocalese singing, and is active in jazz education...
, American jazz musician - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (born 1950), American scholar
- Hilliard GatesHilliard GatesHilliard Gates was an American sportscaster who was widely regarded as the founding father of Indiana broadcasting and the leading sportscaster in Indiana for decades.-Early days:...
, American sports journalist - Horatio GatesHoratio GatesHoratio Lloyd Gates was a retired British soldier who served as an American general during the Revolutionary War. He took credit for the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga – Benedict Arnold, who led the attack, was finally forced from the field when he was shot in the leg – and...
(1726-1806), Revolutionary War American General - John GatesJohn GatesJohn "Johnny" Gates, born Solomon Regenstreif was a prominent American Communist journalist, best remembered as one of the individuals spearheading a failed attempt at liberalization of the Communist Party USA in 1957.-Early years:...
, American political activist - John Gates (courtier)John Gates (courtier)Sir John Gates KB was an English courtier and soldier, holding influential household positions in the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI. One of the Chief Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber under Edward VI, he became a follower of John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland and was a principal participant...
, 16th century English soldier and courtier - John Warne GatesJohn Warne GatesJohn Warne Gates , also known as "Bet-a-Million" Gates, was a pioneer promoter of barbed wire who became a Gilded Age industrialist.-Biography:...
, American industrialist - Julius W. GatesJulius W. GatesJulius William Gates was the eighth Sergeant Major of the Army. In July 1987, he was sworn in and he served until his term ended four years later in June 1991. He was born in North Carolina on June 14, 1941....
, onetime Sergeant Major of the U.S. Army - Ken Gates, pseudonym for American voice actor Rodger Parsons
- Larry GatesLarry GatesLarry Gates was an American actor probably best known for his role as H.B. Lewis on daytime's Guiding Light and as Doc Baugh in the film version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
, American actor - Merrill Edward Gates, American scholar
- Phyllis GatesPhyllis GatesPhyllis Lucille Gates was an American secretary and interior decorator notable for her three year marriage to the actor Rock Hudson....
, wife of Rock Hudson - Rick GatesRick GatesRick Gates is an Internet pioneer mostly known because he organised the The Internet Hunt and raised the ideas of Interpedia. He studied at the Graduate Library School at the University of Arizona. In 1992 he started the monthly competition The Internet Hunt where questions had to be answered...
, American software developer - Sylvester James GatesSylvester James GatesSylvester James Gates, Jr. is a noted American theoretical physicist. He received BS and PhD degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the latter in 1977. His doctoral thesis was the first thesis at MIT to deal with supersymmetry. Gates is currently the John S...
, American theoretical physicist - Synyster GatesSynyster GatesBrian Elwin Haner, Jr. , better known by his stage name Synyster Gates or simply Syn, is an American musician, best known for being the lead guitarist of the American heavy metal band Avenged Sevenfold.-Early life:...
, American guitarist - Tucker GatesTucker GatesTucker Gates is an American television director and producer. He has directed several episodes of the J. J. Abrams shows, Alias and Lost, including the very last episode of Alias...
, American television director - Vickie GatesVickie GatesIf you are looking for the actress Vickie Gates please use this linkVickie Gates is a professional female bodybuilder from the United States....
, an American female bodybuilder - William Gates (basketball), protagonist from the 1994 movie Hoop Dreams
- William Thomas George GatesWilliam Thomas George GatesWilliam Thomas George Gates CBE, 21 January 1908 - 23 November 1990 was a banker and expert on Africa.Education: Ilford County High School.- Career :He began work with the National Bank of New Zealand at their London office, 1925-30....
(1908-1990), businessman
Fictional characters
- Conrad GatesConrad GatesConrad Gates is a fictional character from the British TV show Footballers' Wives, played by Ben Price; he is a parody of real-life football player David Beckham.-Series 3:...
, fictional British television character - Elsa Gates, fictional British television character
- Jack Gates, fictional British television character
- Tony GatesTony GatesDr. Anthony "Tony" Gates is a fictional character on the television series ER. He is portrayed by John Stamos.-Paramedic appearances:Tony Gates was introduced as a paramedic during Season 12 . In Gates' first appearance in the series, he was fired at while trying to assist a young kidnapping victim...
, fictional American television character