Coats (surname)
Coats is a surname of English origin.People surnamed Coats
- A.W. Coats, English economist, historian of economic thought
- Amelia R. Coats, American printmaker
- Buck Coats, American professional baseball player
- Dan Coats, American diplomat and politician; served as the Director of National Intelligence
- Herbert P. Coats, New York state senator and Puerto Rico attorney general
- James Coats, British skeleton racer
- John Coats, Scottish theosophist; bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church
- Michael Coats, American NASA astronaut
- Robert H. Coats, Canadian statistician
- Robert R. Coats, Canadian-American geologist
- Stuart Coats, British politician; MP for Wimbledon and East Surrey
- Thomas Coats , made Paisley, Scotland, the world center for thread making.
