Cates
Cates is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bertram Cates, fictional
character in the play Inherit the Wind
- Challen Cates, American actress
- Clifton Bledsoe Cates, 19th Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
- David Allan Cates, American novelist
- George Cates, American musical conductor associated with Lawrence Welk
- George Edward Cates, English recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War I
- Gilbert Cates, American film director
- Kristy Cates, American stage actress and singer
- Michael Cates, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University
- Miriam Cates, British Member of Parliament elected 2019
- Phil Cates, American politician
- Phoebe Cates, American film actress
- Richard Cates, American lawyer and politician
