Yates (surname)

Not to be confused with Yeats or Yeates

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

Entertainment

Art and literature

• William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), an Irish poet and dramatist, Nobel Prize winner
• Edmund Yates (1831–1894), Edinburgh-born novelist and dramatist
• Frederic Yates (1854–1919), English painter
• Dornford Yates, the pseudonym of the English novelist, Cecil William Mercer (1885–1960)
• Elizabeth Yates (author) (1905–2001), American author
• Fred Yates (1922–2008), English painter
• Richard Yates (novelist) (1926–1992), American novelist and short story writer
• J. Michael Yates (born 1938), Canadian poet and dramatist
• Jason Yates (born 1972), American visual artist

Music, theatre, film and television

• Mary Anne Yates (1728–1787), English tragic actress
• Herbert Yates (1880–1966), founder and president of Republic Pictures
• Peter Yates (1929–2011), was English film director
• Cassie Yates (born 1951), American television actress
• David Yates (born 1963), English film and television director
• Aaron Dontez Yates, Tech N9ne
• Reggie Yates (born 1983), English actor, television presenter and radio DJ
• Billy Yates (fl. 1992–), American country singer
• Francesco Yates (born 1995), Canadian singer
• Rebecca Yates, Australian ballerina.

News media

• Jess Yates (1918–1993), English television presenter
• Paula Yates (1959–2000), British television presenter
• Alastair Yates (fl. 1976–),^[2] English BBC News presenter
• Brock Yates (fl. 1980–), automotive magazine reporter/editor

Sports

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

Politics

United States

• Abraham Yates, American Continental Congressman
• Frederick Yates (Michigan), Michigan politician
• Harry D. Yates, Acting NYS Comptroller 1941
• John Van Ness Yates, NY Secretary of State 1818–1826
• Joseph C. Yates, former governor of New York
• Mary Carlin Yates, U.S. ambassador
• Peter W. Yates, American attorney and Continental Congress delegate
• Richard Yates (governor), Illinois politician
• Richard Yates (son), Illinois politician, his son
• Robert Yates (politician), anti-Federalist American politician
• Sidney R. Yates, politician from the state of Illinois

Other countries

• Dianne Yates, New Zealand politician
• Elizabeth Yates (mayor), first female mayor in the British Empire
• Ivan Yates, senior Irish politician

Science

• David Gilbert Yates, American eye, ear and throat surgeon
• Frances Yates, noted English historian
• Frank Yates (1902–1994), English statistician
• JoAnne Yates (born 1951), American Professor of Managerial Communication
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates (born 1961), Chilean computer scientist
• Samuel Yates, mathematician

Miscellaneous

• 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 William and Mary College

Fiction

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

References

1. http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Yates
2. "Alastair Yates" (Press release). BBC. April 2006. Retrieved 2009-05-01.