Gates (surname)
Gates is a surname, and may refer to:Gates family
The Gates family of Seattle, Washington. Members of this family include:
- Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
- Melinda Gates, American philanthropist, wife of Bill Gates
- *The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates
- William H. Gates, Sr., retired attorney and philanthropist, Bill's father
- Mary Maxwell Gates, American philanthropist, Bill's mother
- Mimi Gardner Gates, American art historian, William Sr.'s second wife
Athletes
- Antonio Gates, American football player
- Barbara Gates, American baseball player
- Bobby Gates, American golf player
- Brent Gates, American professional baseball player
- Clyde Gates, American football player
- DeMarquis Gates, American football player
- George Gates , English footballer
- Lionel Gates, American football player
- Mathew Gates, American figure skater
- Pop Gates, American basketball player
- Yancy Gates, American basketball player
Civil servants
- Artemus Gates, American financier and Undersecretary of the Navy during World War II
- Charles W. Gates, 20th century governor of Vermont
- Daryl Gates, American police officer best known as Los Angeles police chief
- Francis H. Gates, New York state senator
- Mickey Gates, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
- Ralph F. Gates, governor of Indiana 1945-1949
- Robert Gates, former president of Texas A&M, former CIA director, 22nd United States Secretary of Defense
- Seth Merrill Gates, 19th century American politician
- Thomas Gates, several people
- * Sir Thomas Gates , Governor of colonial Virginia
- * Thomas S. Gates, Jr., American politician
Other people
- Bill Gates, a participant in the Klondike Gold Rush
- Charles Gates, Jr., of the Gates Rubber Company
- Charles Gilbert Gates,
- Christopher T. Gates, American philanthropist
- Crawford Gates, American composer and musician
- David Gates, singer-songwriter
- David Gates , author-journalist
- Debbie Gates, British television writer-producer
- Deborah Gates, American actress
- Frank P. Gates, American architect
- Frederick Taylor Gates, American Baptist minister and advisor to the Rockefeller family
- Gareth Gates, British pop musician
- Giacomo Gates, American jazz musician
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., American scholar
- Hilliard Gates, American sports journalist
- Horatio Gates, Revolutionary War American General
- J. Gabriel Gates, American author
- John Gates, American political activist
- John Gates, 16th century English soldier and courtier
- John Warne Gates, American industrialist
- Julius W. Gates, onetime Sergeant Major of the U.S. Army
- Ken Gates, pseudonym for American voice actor Rodger Parsons
- Larry Gates, American actor
- Merrill Edward Gates, American scholar
- Nancy Gates, American actress
- Phyllis Gates, wife of Rock Hudson
- Raydon Gates, Australian navy admiral
- Rick Gates, American software developer
- Rick Gates, American political consultant and lobbyist
- Robert Franklin Gates), American artist and professor
- Robert McFarland Gates, American engineer
- Sylvester James Gates, American theoretical physicist
- Synyster Gates, American guitarist
- Tucker Gates, American television director
- Vickie Gates, an American female bodybuilder
- William Gates, protagonist from the 1994 movie Hoop Dreams
- William Thomas George Gates, businessman
Fictional characters
- Conrad Gates, fictional British television character
- Elsa Gates, fictional British television character
- Jack Gates, fictional British television character
- Tony Gates, fictional American television character
- Benjamin Franklin Gates, fictional British television character played by Nicolas Cage in "National Treasure".
- Gates, fictional anime character.
