John Bates
# 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
