Bates

Bates may refer to:

Places

 * Bates, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
 * Bates, Illinois. an unincorporated community in Sangamon County
 * Bates, Michigan, a community in Grand Traverse County
 * Bates, New York, a hamlet in the town of Ellington in Chautauqua County
 * Bates, Oregon, unincorporated community in Grant County
 * Bates County, Missouri, county in Missouri
 * Bates Island, Biscoe Islands, Antarctica
 * Bates Island (Massachusetts), Island in Lake Chaubunagungamaug
 * Bates Point, in Victoria Land, Antarctica
 * Bates Pond (Carver, Massachusetts), Twenty-acre pond
 * Bates State Park, in Grant County, Oregon
 * Bates Township, Michigan, in Iron County

People

 * Bates (surname), a common surname
 * Bates family, a banking family in the United States and the United Kingdom
 * Bates Gill (born 1959), American political scientist
 * Bates Lowry (1923–2004), American art historian

Colleges and universities

 * Bates College, a liberal arts college founded in 1855 in Lewiston, Maine
 * Bates Technical College, a technical college founded in 1940 in Tacoma, Washington
 * Bates Theological Seminary, also known as Cobb Divinity School

Companies and industries

 * Bates 141, an advertising agency renamed Bates in 2011
 * Bates Mill, a factory founded 1854 in Lewiston, Maine, producing textiles, also the site of an industrial park

Transportation and vehicles

 * BATES, an acronym for BAllistic Test and Evaluation System
 * Bates (automobile), an automobile manufactured by the Bates Automobile Company
 * Bates Monoplane, a pioneering aircraft built by Carl Sterling Bates in 1911

Other

 * Bates method, a method of vision improvement
 * Bates numbering, a number system for standardized document identification used in the legal, medical, and business fields
 * The Bates, a German punk band
 * Bates Uniform Footwear, a brand of footwear owned by Wolverine World Wide
 * Battlefield Artillery Target Engagement System (BATES), a force-multiplier computer system procured for the British Army from Marconi Electronic Systems