Yates (surname)

Yates is a Scandinavian or Anglo-Saxon^[1] surname common among the Irish, and best associated with the Poet Laureate of Ireland, William Butler Yeats, and his family of painters, including founders of Dun Emer Press and the Abbey Theatre. Notable people with the surname include:

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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 (1938–2019), Canadian poet and dramatist
Jason Yates (born 1972), American visual artist
Myriam Yates (born 1971), Canadian artist
Richard Yates (novelist) (1926–1992), American novelist and short story writer

Adam Yates (born 1992), English cyclist
Adam Yates (footballer) (born 1983), English association football player
Billy Yates (American football) (born 1980), American Football player
Dorian Yates (born 1962), professional English bodybuilder
Frederick Yates (chess player) (1884–1932), English chess master who won the British Championship six times
Gary Yates (cricketer) (born 1967), Lancashire cricket player
Janet Yates, Irish archer
Kevin Yates (born 1972), rugby union prop forward
Kirby Yates (born 1987), American baseball player for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball
Robert Yates (NASCAR) (born ca 1943, fl. 1961–2007), former owner of Yates Racing, NASCAR racing team
Ryan Yates, (born 1997), English association football player
Sammy Yates, English association football player
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 association football player
Steven Yates (born 1983), rugby union player from New Zealand
T. J. Yates (born 1987), American football player
Tony Yates (1937–2020), American basketball player and coach
Tyler Yates (born 1977), major league baseball pitcher
Wayne Yates (1937–2022), NBA player and college basketball coach

Charles Yates (1808–1870), brigadier-general during the American Civil War
Donald Norton Yates (1909–1993), USAAF officer and meteorologist to Eisenhower in WWII
Earl P. Yates (1923–2021), US Admiral
Elmer P. Yates (1917–2011), US Army engineer general
George Yates (1843–1876), US Army officer and friend of George Armstrong Custer
Harry Yates (RAF officer) (1896–1968), Canadian RAF officer
James Yates (cricketer) (1883–1929), cricketer and British Indian Army officer
Julian E. Yates (1871–1953), US Army officer and chaplain
Peter Yates (architect) (1920–1982), British architect and RAF officer

Andrea Yates, woman acquitted, by reason of insanity, of drowning her five children
James Yates, English Unitarian minister
John Yates, former Assistant Commissioner in the Metropolitan Police Service
Joseph Brooks Yates, English merchant and antiquary
Richard Vaughan Yates, founder of Prince's Park, Liverpool
Robert Lee Yates, American serial killer
William Yates, fifth president of the College of William & Mary
Thomas, John, Albert and William Yates (1860-1917), the largest organizers of production on the Ural in Russia of the 19-20 century.^[2]

Detective Yates, recurring character in the skit comedy series The Kids in the Hall
The Hon. John Yates from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Kasidy Yates, a recurring character in the science fiction TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Lise Yates, from the British TV Sitcom Red Dwarf
Captain Mike Yates, British science fiction television series Doctor Who
Rowdy Yates, Rawhide TV series (CBS 1959–1966)
Yates Noll, villain from Terrier, Book 1 of Tamora Pierce's Beka Cooper Series
Richard Yates, a 2010 novel by Tao Lin

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