Yates (surname)

Not to be confused with Yeats or Yeates

Yates is an Anglo-Saxon surname.^[1] Notable people with the surname include:

Entertainment

Dornford Yates, the pseudonym of the English novelist, Cecil William Mercer (1885–1960)
Edmund Yates (1831–1894), Edinburgh-born novelist and dramatist
Elizabeth Yates (author) (1905–2001), American author
Fred Yates (1922–2008), English painter
Frederic Yates (1854–1919), English painter
J. Michael Yates (born 1938), Canadian poet and dramatist
Jason Yates (born 1972), American visual artist
Richard Yates (novelist) (1926–1992), American novelist and short story writer

Adam Yates (cyclist) (born 1992), English cyclist
Adam Yates (footballer) (born 1983), English football player
Billy Yates (American football) (born 1980), American Football player
Dorian Yates (born 1962), professional English bodybuilder
Frederick Yates (1884–1932), English chess master who won the British Championship six times
Gary Yates (cricketer) (born 1967), Lancashire cricket player
Kevin Yates (born 1972), rugby union prop forward
Robert Yates (NASCAR) (born ca 1943, fl. 1961–2007), former owner of Yates Racing, NASCAR racing team
Sean Yates (born 1960), English cyclist
Simon Yates (cyclist) (born 1992), English cyclist
Simon Yates (golfer) (born 1970), British golfer
Simon Yates (mountaineer) (born 1963), English mountaineer
Steve Yates (born 1970), English football player
Steven Yates (born 1983), rugby union player from New Zealand
T.J. Yates American football player
Tyler Yates (born 1977), major league baseball pitcher
Wayne Yates (born 1937), NBA player and college basketball coach

Andrea Yates, woman acquitted, by reason of insanity, of drowning her five children
Charles Yates, (died September 29, 1870), brigadier-general during the American Civil War
George Yates, Army officer and friend of George Armstrong Custer
John Yates, former Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police Service
Robert Lee Yates, American serial killer
William Yates, fifth president of the College of William & Mary

Or one of the following fictional characters:

Lisa Yates, from the British TV Sitcom Red Dwarf
Captain Mike Yates, British science fiction television series Doctor Who
Detective Yates, recurring character in the skit comedy series The Kids in the Hall
Rowdy Yates, Rawhide TV series (CBS 1959–1966)
Yates Noll, villain from Terrier, Book 1 of Tamora Pierce's Beka Cooper Series
The Hon. John Yates from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

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