John Bates

John Bates may refer to:

Sportspeople

 * John Bates (American football) (born 1997), American football player
 * John Bates (baseball) (1868–1919), American baseball player
 * Johnny Bates (baseball) (1882–1949), American baseball player
 * John Bates (basketball) (1938–2015), American college basketball coach

Other people

 * John Bates (technology executive), British computer scientist and businessman
 * John Bates (designer) (1935–2022), English fashion designer
 * John C. Bates (1842–1919), U.S. general and army chief of staff 1906
 * John L. Bates (1859–1946), U.S. political figure and governor of Massachusetts 1903–1905
 * John D. Bates (born 1946), federal judge appointed by George W. Bush
 * John Bates (rector), eighteenth-century Senior Wrangler; see List of Wranglers of the University of Cambridge
 * Big John Bates, Canadian guitarist and singer
 * John Bates (neurophysiologist) (1918–1993), English neurophysiologist
 * John Grenville Bates (1880–1944), co-founder of the American Kennel Club

Fictional characters

 * John Bates, a character from the period drama soap opera Downton Abbey
 * Johnny Bates, alter ego of Kid Marvelman